County: Sligo Site name: Collooney
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 18E0262
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 567838m, N 825498m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.177431, -8.492643
Pre-development testing of a site at Collooney townland, on the southern outskirts of Collooney in County Sligo, was carried out on 21 May 2018. The development consisted of the construction of twenty-two dwellings with all associated works. The testing was a condition of the planning permission granted by Sligo County Council and was necessary due to the size and scale of the proposed development.
The development site was located in a partially disturbed field of pasture, which sloped down from the east to a lower marshy area in the west. A sewer pipe crossed the site which also contained a number of spoil heaps and builder's rubble. There were modern housing developments adjacent to the north and east. There were no recorded monuments within or in the immediate vicinity of the site.
Testing consisted of the excavation (by machine) of four trenches which measured 26.5m, 59.5m, 52.3m, and 46m long respectively; 1.8-2m wide and 0.2-1.5m deep. Below the topsoil was natural subsoil. Fill, associated with the adjacent developments, was found above the topsoil in two of the trenches. The topsoil contained modern glass fragments, modern pottery sherds and seven sherds of 18th/19th-century date (three from the one vessel).
Nothing of archaeological significance was in evidence.
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