2024:454 - Mount Assumpta, Ballina, Mayo

A total of 4 test trenches were excavated. Each trench measured 1.8m in width, and in total, 63m of linear trenches were excavated. Trench one was split into two due to a waste water pipe. Trench 3 was shortened because of another waste pipe. The topsoil (C1) was a soft dark brown clayey silt sod over a lighter brown clayey silt. It was disturbed in places and contained dumped rubbish. The natural (C2) varied from a bright orange clayey silt to a mottled dark grey and brown silty clay with grey gravel. Modern agricultural features were noted in the trenches in the form of a field ditch, field drain and water pipe. No archaeological features or deposits were observed or exposed within the trenches; therefore, the proposed development will have no impact on archaeological features.