County: Sligo Site name: Rathbragahan, Ballytivnan, Farranacardy, Rathquarter, Rathedmond, Knappagh Beg, Magheraboy, Abbeyquarter North, Abbeyquarter South, Caltragh, Knocknaganny, Commons, Cornageeha, Cleaveragh Demesne and Tonaphubble. Sligo Watermain Rehabilitation and Pearse Road Sewer Network
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SL014-064 Licence number: 17E0142 and 17R0047
Author: Kate Taylor, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd
Site type: Late post-medieval urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 569300m, N 835800m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.270087, -8.471303
Monitoring was conducted during 2017 and 2018 within the historic core of Sligo town as part of the Sligo Watermain Rehabilitation and Pearse Road Sewer Network project, specifically in the following areas: John Street, Smith’s Row, JFK Parade, Thomas Street, Castle Street, Teeling Street, Pearse Road, New Bridge, Bridge Street, Stephen Street, Holborn Street, Holborn Hill, Hyde Bridge, Lower Knox Street, Wine Street, Union Street, Lower Quay Street, Quay Street, Old Market Street, Connolly Street and Mail Coach Road. Additionally, intermittent monitoring or spot checks of works were carried out at various locations outside the Historic Core of Sligo town, specifically at Tonaphubble Lane, Cleveragh and Cemetery Road.
The bulk of the monitored works were located in the townlands of Rathquarter, Knappagh Beg, Abbeyquarter North, Abbeyquarter South, Cleaveragh Demesne and Tonaphubble.
Culverts were exposed on Bridge Street, Stephen Street, Quay Street, John Street, Smith’s Row, Old Market Street, Connolly Street, Thomas Street and Teeling Street. A wall was exposed at the junction of Thomas Street and JFK Parade, and interpreted as either part of an old building or a wall linking to the original line of the New Bridge extending up Thomas Street. A buried eighth arch of the New Bridge was exposed at the corner of Rockwood Parade and the New Bridge. A layer of shells was encountered along Castle Street, John Street, Old Market Street, Thomas Street and Teeling Street, containing oyster and cockle shells as well as red brick, clay tobacco pipe stems and occasional glass fragments. A cobbled layer uncovered west of the rear entrance to the Quayside Shopping Centre was interpreted as part of an old street or road surface, dating to the late 18th/early 19th century. Pits near Lower Quay Street contained evidence of 18th/19th-century deposits. Walling, possibly part of another culvert or a section of an older bridge, was exposed east of Hyde Bridge. Cobbles and a portion of culvert wall were exposed on Lower Knox Street.
Ahish, Ballinruan, Crusheen, Co. Clare
