2024:266 - Behybaun, Creggaun, Commons, Knocklehaugh and Gorteen townlands, Mayo
NMI Burial Excavation Records
County: Mayo
Site name: Behybaun, Creggaun, Commons, Knocklehaugh and Gorteen townlands
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 24E1043
Author: Martin Fitzpatrick
Author/Organisation Address: Old Church Street, Athenry, County Galway
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 523202m, N 817855m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.104032, -9.174300
Archaeological monitoring of geotechnical site investigations in the townlands of Behybaun, Creggaun, Commons, Knocklehaugh and Gorteen in County Mayo were undertaken over a period of 8 days from 7 October 2024. The works were carried out along a 2.27km route of agricultural land, which includes marginal land and peat, on the outskirts of Ballina town.
A total of twenty eight test pits were monitored along the route. The general stratigraphy indicated sod and peaty topsoil over silty clay. A disturbed layer below topsoil was encountered in TP003 and TP015, however the remainder of the pits recorded natural layers below the topsoil. Peat was encountered in a number of pits with a maximum depth of 0.9-1m in TP012 and TP019.
Nothing of archaeological significance was encountered in any of the trenches excavated with natural ground below topsoil in the majority of pits excavated.