County: Mayo Site name: Convent Road, Ballinrobe
Sites and Monuments Record No.: MA118-022 Licence number: 24E0659
Author: Derek Gallagher, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 519325m, N 764401m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.623204, -9.219519
The nearest recorded monument is a graveyard (MA118-022013-) that previously contained a medieval parish church (MA118-022008-), later replaced by St Mary’s Church of Ireland. A 7m length trench was excavated within the proposed development site. No archaeological structures, features, deposits or artefacts were recorded in the trench, which was excavated to a depth of 1.18m. The proposed development site is heavily disturbed and built-up with made-up ground of stone and gravel above mottled orangish-brown sandy clay, overlying limestone bedrock.
Unit 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth. A92 DH99.
