County: Roscommon Site name: Kilvoy 2
Sites and Monuments Record No.: NA Licence number: E005206
Author: Patrick Walsh
Site type: Wall and area of burning
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 579451m, N 787523m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.836792, -8.312200
Kilvoy 2 was excavated in advance of construction of the N5 Ballaghaderreen to Scramoge Road Project in County Roscommon by Archaeological Management Solutions for Roscommon County Council and Transport Infrastructure Ireland. Stage (i) testing confirmed that a vernacular structure’s wall foundations were present at Kilvoy 2, over an area measuring c. 3m x 3m in plan and 0.2m deep (Hardy 2021). Subsequent Stage (ii) and (iii) excavation revealed an L-shaped wall (3.1m x 2.6m x 0.2m) built in a foundation slot. To the northeast, 1.35m away, was a fire-reddened irregular spread — the result of burning at this location. No artefacts were discovered during the excavation.
References were made to the townland of Kilvoy in the censuses and records; however, no direct link could be made between families and persons named and the structure uncovered at Kilvoy 2. As the structure was depicted on the first-edition six-inch Ordnance Survey (OS) map (1838) but not the 25-inch OS map (1914), it likely was destroyed as part of the land clearances in the Famine period.
Archaeological Management Solutions Fahy’s Road, Kilrush, Co. Clare. V15 C780
