2017:099 - Doogort, Achill, Mayo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Mayo Site name: Doogort, Achill

Sites and Monuments Record No.: MA042-032001 (field boundary) Licence number: 17E0265

Author: Jon Stirland

Site type: Non Archaeological

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 466724m, N 807557m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.000033, -10.032896

A total of 4 test trenches were excavated within the site of the proposed development on 9 June 2017. A test trench was excavated across the line of the monument MA042-032001, field boundary, the results of which indicate that the wall is of a relatively modern date and simply represents the remains of an abandoned agricultural stone wall. No archaeological features or deposits were recorded.

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