2016:572 - CLAGGARNAGH EAST (4/5), Mayo
County: Mayo
Site name: CLAGGARNAGH EAST (4/5)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: E004694
Author: Siobhan McNamara, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co Louth
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 508664m, N 786634m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.821189, -9.387185
Two burnt stone spreads, cultivation furrows, stone-filled land drains and a possible pit/trough were identified at Claggarnagh East 4/5. The larger spread (F03) to the west measured 12m east-west by 7m and the smaller spread (F04) to the east and upslope measured 6m by 6.2m. A possible trough/pit (F08) was located just north of the smaller spread to the east of the site. It was rectangular in plan and extended beyond the land-take. The trough was originally timber lined but only the base timbers and the lower of the side-wall timbers survived in a poor state of preservation. It measured 1.8m by 1.3m with a maximum depth of 0.58m. The base of the timber-lined trough sealed an earlier alder plank which displays evidence for possible saw marks. No finds were recovered from this site.
Post-excavation analysis is ongoing for this site and it is hoped to obtain dating evidence from radiocarbon analysis of charcoal samples recovered.