2019:274 - Ballyconboy, Roscommon

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Roscommon Site name: Ballyconboy

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 19E0615

Author: Tamlyn McHugh

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 578535m, N 784769m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.812007, -8.325924

Monitoring took place on 31 October 2019 at a tree plantation at Ballyconboy, Co. Roscommon. The development consisted of the construction of a forestry access road for the purpose of felling mature trees. The forestry access road was 190m in length and constructed by layering deposits of gravel over a brush mat of branches above the original ground level. The grass-covered sod and topsoil at the entrance, directly adjacent to the road, was mechanically removed. A drain was excavated in an east to west alignment across the forestry access road. The stratigraphy consisted of 0.4m of dark brown clayey silt topsoil over a grey boulder clay with occasional occurrences of small to medium sized stones. No archaeological material was noted during monitoring works at Ballyconboy.

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