County: Mayo Site name: Nymphsfield, Cong
Sites and Monuments Record No.: MA120-050 Licence number: 18E0516
Author: Billy Quinn
Site type: Vicinity of cave, no archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 515093m, N 755662m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.544021, -9.281098
onitoring of site clearance works at Nymphsfield, Cong, Co. Mayo took place over four days between 30 June and 14 August 2019. The eastern portion of the site impacts on the ‘zone of archaeological potential’ for the National Monument (No. 413) MA120-050-, known as Kelly’s Cave. The work was carried out by a 20-tonne backhoe excavator with a 1.8m-wide toothless bucket. From conversations with the owner the site had previously been cleared in the 1980s and an access path installed. Since then the site has been used intermittently for infilling evidenced by overgrown mounds. For the most part the work consisted of clearing back light scrub rooted in a thin surface layer over limestone pavement with clint and gryke fissures. There was no archaeology found.
Moore Archaeological and Environmental Services Ltd. 3 Gort na Ri, Athenry, Co. Galway
