County: Mayo Site name: Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe
Sites and Monuments Record No.: MA118-022---- Licence number: 24E0656
Author: Derek Gallagher, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 518820m, N 764690m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.625722, -9.227226
The site is within the historic town of Ballinrobe (MA118-022----) but it does not contain any recorded monuments. The nearest such monument is a graveyard (MA118-022007-), which is located directly across the road and associated with a church (MA118-022006-) c. 116m to the north of the site.
In total, 23m of linear trenches were excavated to assess the site. No archaeological structures, features, deposits or artefacts were recorded in the trenches, which were excavated to a depth of between 1.28m and 2.06m. The proposed development site is heavily disturbed and built-up with gravel and rubble overlying a natural of orange silty clay.
Unit 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth. A92 DH99.
