2022:585 - Main Street, Mohill Town, Leitrim

Archaeological monitoring of exploratory groundworks was undertaken for Mohill Public Realm Water Mains Scheme at Main Street in Mohill town, Co. Leitrim. The works were carried out on 14 February and between 25 May and 16 June 2022.
The works were partially located within the Zones of Notification surrounding five recorded archaeological sites comprising a church site (RMP LE032-068) (now classified as a ‘redundant record’ on the Historic Environment Viewer (HEV)), a religious house – Augustinian canons (SMR LE032-068001-), a church (SMR LE032-068002-), a graveyard (SMR LE032-068003-) and a tomb – unclassified (SMR LE032-068004-).
The excavation of one trial hole and fifteen exploratory trenches (T1–T15) associated with the pipe-bursting installation method and house connections was archaeologically monitored. The trial hole measured 5m long, 0.6m wide and 1.4m deep, while the exploratory trenches ranged between 1.2–8m in length, 1–3.5m wide and 0.8–1.7m in depth and the ground there was previously heavily disturbed and infilled with gravel overlying existing pipeline.
Trenches T1–T9 were located along the southern side of Main Street. In T6, T8 and T9 situated at the junction of Main Street and Castle Street, opposite St Mary’s Church of Ireland, the monitoring did not find any potential archaeological objects, features or deposits or human bones to suggest that the graveyard extended to the north beyond the existing wall.
In trenches T10–T15, situated along the northern side of Main Street, a cobbled street surface within mid-orangish grey silty clay was revealed at a depth of 0.4m below street level. This late-nineteenth-century cobbled surface comprised of sub-angular and angular sandstone which ranged in size from 150–300mm by 50–130mm. No potential archaeological objects, features or deposits or human bones were noted in these trenches.

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