2024:490 - Carrowbaun, Westport, Mayo
County: Mayo
Site name: Carrowbaun, Westport
Sites and Monuments Record No.: NA
Licence number: 24E0843
Author: Patrick Walsh
Author/Organisation Address: AMS, Fahy's Road, Kilrush, Co Clare
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 498712m, N 783632m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.792379, -9.537289
The monitoring of the Uisce Éireann Water Network Programme (WNP), Westport WM, scheme in Co. Mayo followed a high-level Cultural Heritage Screening Assessment (CHSA) undertaken for the scheme by Archaeological Management Solutions (AMS) in June 2024. The CHSA found that the proposed scheme does not traverse the Zone of Notification or constraints area as noted on the Record of
Monuments and Places mapping for any Recorded Monument or site listed on the Sites and Monuments Record. However, depending on the construction methodology, the CHSA recommended monitoring at the site of the water pipe shown on the first-edition Ordnance Survey map of 1839.
The scheme involved the installation of c.1134m of gravity water main along the existing road network. The new pipeline was installed using the open-cut trenching method. A 50m section of continuous open-cut trench in the vicinity of the water pipe CH03 was archaeologically monitored on 12 September 2024.
No potential archaeological objects, features, deposits or human remains were found.