2018:375 - Ballymote, Carrownanty, Sligo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Sligo Site name: Ballymote, Carrownanty

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SL033-092 Licence number: Ministerial Consent C000804; E004841

Author: Anne Carey

Site type: Ballymote Castle National Monument No. 638

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 566056m, N 815462m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.087139, -8.518810

Monitoring was carried out at the site of a nursing home extension to the south-east of Ballymote Castle, a National Monument. Pre-development testing had been carried out on the proposed development site on 28 June, 2017 and monitoring of groundworks was undertaken over a six-day period from 6 June to 23 July, 2018. An area of c. 30m north-west/south-east by 12m was mechanically excavated to a maximum depth of 1.4m. Nothing of archaeological significance was discovered during the works.

80 Portacarron, Ballymoneen Road, Galway