County: Roscommon Site name: Creemully and Aghagad Beg
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 22E0497
Author: Zbigniew Malek, Archaeological Management Solutions
Site type: N/A
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 579641m, N 762095m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.608298, -8.307641
Archaeological monitoring of groundworks was undertaken for Uisce Éireann’s Water Network Programme, Cremully and Aghagad scheme, located along an existing unnamed local road c.1.4km and c.8km to southwest of Castlecoote and Roscommon Town respectively in the townlands of Creemully and Aghagad Beg in Co. Roscommon. The monitoring was carried out on 12 and 23 August 2022 at the location of a Cultural Heritage site (a well).
The groundworks for the Cremully and Aghagad scheme consisted of a series of access pits associated with directional drilling and a section of continuous open-cut exploratory trench located opposite the well. The trench measured approximately 20m long, 0.7–1m wide and 1.1m deep. The trench comprised modern road surfaces consisting of 0.03m of tarmac, overlaying a grey hardcore gravel 0.17m deep, overlying a 0.9m deep layer of natural subsoil consisting mid-brownish yellow sandy silt with moderate small to large sub-angular and sub-rounded stones.
No potential archaeological objects, features, deposits were noted during the archaeological monitoring.
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