2018:568 - SALEEN, Mayo
County: Mayo
Site name: SALEEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 18E0455
Author: Sue Zajac
Author/Organisation Address: Áras an Chontae, Castlebar
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 515448m, N 789259m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.845919, -9.284903
Testing prior to the construction of social housing and a training centre took place on the outskirts of Castlebar town on behalf of Mayo County Council. Twenty-four test trenches were mechanically excavated and an area of burnt stone was uncovered in one of the test trenches. A small deposit of animal bone and wood seemed to be associated with the burnt stone. An area covering 16m east x west by 14m was left aside for hand excavation. The testing license was transferred and the area was excavated in November 2018. Nothing else of archaeological significance was uncovered.