County: Longford Site name: Ballinalee
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: 19E0333
Author: Eoin Halpin
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 622530m, N 780767m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.776000, -7.658198
Planning permission was sought as an element of the Part 8 process for the development of a site at Rose Cottage, Ballinalee, Co Longford to construct six sheltered housing units within the grounds of Rose Cottage, redevelop the cottage itself, with associated services and create eight new access parking spaces to the north.
The four test trenches were placed over the footprint of the proposed development of the six housing units on site. Nothing of archaeological interest was noted apart from the remains of a French drain running east-west across the southern end of the site and glass and red brick fragments from the fill indicated a 19th- or 20th-century date for its construction.
The testing also revealed that natural subsoil, a glacial till, sloped relatively steeply downwards to the south and south-west, from a high plateau in the north-east corner, with a commensurate increase in depths of the topsoil overburden from as little as 0.2m in the north-east to over 1.5m at the south end of Trench 2. The other feature of the testing was the significant degree of root disturbance, particularly in the north-east corner where the topsoil was shallowest.
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