County: Sligo Site name: Markree Demense
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SL026-038 (House - 16th/17th century) Licence number: 15E0478.
Author: Donald Murphy
Site type: Non Archaeological
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 569851m, N 825112m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.174085, -8.461771
Modifications to the existing development included for new groundworks both inside and outside the castle. The ducts were excavated to a depth of 0.32-1.5m through a layer of Victorian rubble which consisted of an orange gravelly clay, stone and brick fragments. The flagstone floor within the church and kitchen area was removed and was found to lie upon a layer of mid-grey gravel and clay, which was found to be Victorian in date. It measured 0.28m in thickness and lay above the natural orange clay. No archaeological features or deposits were exposed or identified and no finds other than a small quantity of 19th/20th-century delftware were recovered.
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