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2016:323 - CASTLEBAR: Market Street, Mayo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Mayo

Site name: CASTLEBAR: Market Street

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 16E0607

Author: Graham Hull, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd

Author/Organisation Address: Ahish, Ballinruan, Crusheen, Co. Clare

Site type: Town

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

ITM: E 514620m, N 790440m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.856393, -9.297811

Test trenching was carried out in advance of the demolition of a derelict two-storey building at Market Street, Castlebar and the construction of a new premises at the same location. A deposit of refuse, including 18th-century wine bottles, was identified.


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