County: Sligo Site name: St Molaise’s Church, Kilglass
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SL016-011001 Licence number: 22E0365
Author: Patrick Walsh
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 531336m, N 831654m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.229154, -9.053093
Archaeological monitoring of groundworks was undertaken for Uisce Éireann’s Water Network Programme of groundworks associated with the Kilglass and Carrowhubbock South Mains Rehab scheme, Co. Sligo. The works partially took place within the Zones of Notification (ZoN) that included a graveyard (SL016-011002) attached to St Molaise’s Church (SL016-011001) and a designed landscape feature (SL016-012). The monitoring was carried out on the 15, 27 and 28 September 2022. In line with the CHCA for this project, and in order to identify any subsurface archaeological remains or objects that may have potentially existed along the Kilglass Mains Rehab scheme route, all ground excavation works located within the ZoN which contained the graveyard (SL016-011002) and St Molaise’s Church (SL016-011001) were archaeologically monitored. Monitoring was also carried out 20m either side of the ZoN. As a precaution, works were also monitored within the second zone, at the site of the designed landscape (SL016-012).
A continuous open-cut trench was excavated along the entire length of the road at the entrance to Carrowneden House. The stratigraphic sequence of the trench comprised of 0.2m of tarmac sealing a 0.3–0.4m deep layer of hardcore gravel and stones, overlying a 0.7m deep layer of the natural subsoil that consisted of mid-greyish and dark brown silty clay. The open-cut trench was located along the southern edge of the existing byroad within the ZoN containing the graveyard (SL016-011002) and St Molaise’s Church (SL016-011001). It was excavated on 27–28 September 2022 and measured 180m long approximately, 0.6m wide and 1.2m deep. The stratigraphic sequence comprised 0.1m of tar, overlaying a rocky seam of limestone 0.4m deep, overlying a 0.3m deep layer of a natural soil consisting of a dark-greyish and brownish gravelly silty clay. A record of the works carried out at the location of the wall and decorative entrance gates of the Kilglass Church of Ireland, the entrance gates at Meadowside House, the gates associated with Carrowneden House (CH01) and the water pump (CH03) were undertaken as part of the monitoring brief.
No potential archaeological objects, features, deposits were noted in any of the areas subjected to monitoring.
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