County: Sligo Site name: Main Street, Enniscrone
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 22E0793
Author: Zbigniew Malek, Archaeological Management Solutions
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 528723m, N 829905m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.213084, -9.092746
The Main Street, Enniscrone scheme forms part of a larger nationwide Water Network Programme that is being undertaken by Uisce Éireann and comprised the laying of 797m of new 90mm and 125mm PE100 water mains (including associated assets, fittings and transfer of service connections) and decommissioning of 651m of existing 75mm cast iron water mains along the Main Street (R297) in Enniscrone, Co. Sligo.
Archaeological monitoring was recommended within the Zone of Notification (ZoN) for two Recorded Monuments: a church (SL016-019001-) and a graveyard (SL016-019002-), and for any works located in close proximity to the ZoNs of two other Recorded Monuments: a ringfort-rath (SL016-020) and an enclosure (SL016-021). Subsequently, there was a change in the design of the scheme, therefore, no excavation works were carried out at those locations.
The monitoring was carried out in the vicinity of the Bellawaddy River, a possible well [site of] and pumps [site of] for approx. 40m. Works began to the northeast of the Bellawaddy River where one continuous open-cut trench was excavated along the west side of the main road in Enniscrone. It measured 0.7m x 1m (in depth) and the stratigraphic sequence in this trench comprised the modern road surface measuring in total 0.15m in depth, overlaying a 0.6m deep layer of orange sandy gravel. Yellow and grey clay was present at a depth of 0.75m below ground level. This was consistent throughout the trench that was monitored. No potential archaeological objects, features or deposits were revealed in any of these trenches.
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