County: Roscommon Site name: Ballinagard, Roscommon Town
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 24E0562
Author: Zbigniew Malek, Archaeological Management Solutions
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 587500m, N 762954m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.616263, -8.188920
Uisce Éireann’s Water Wastewater Network Programme Ballinagard Wastewater Rising Main, in Ballinagard townland, County Roscommon, is located c.1.5km to the south of Roscommon town centre in a largely rural setting of farm tracks and pasture fields, the northern extent of which is within a wastewater treatment works area. The scheme involved the installation of c.744m of new rising mains along existing farm roads, greenfield and treatment works. The installation method used was directional drilling.
The monitoring followed a high-level Cultural Heritage Screening Assessment (CHSA) undertaken for the scheme by Archaeological Management Solutions in January 2024. The CHSA for the Ballinagard Wastewater Rising Main scheme found that the proposed scheme route would not impact the Zone of Notification or Zone of Archaeological Potential for any Recorded Monument or site listed on the Sites and Monuments Record. The scheme transects a greenfield area which had potential for the presence of previously unrecorded subsurface archaeological remains. A potential circular cropmark measuring c.30m in diameter was identified on the MapGenie B&W (1995) aerial image on the Historic Environment Viewer, but no obvious evidence of any potential archaeological feature was identified at this location during a site visit.
The archaeological monitoring on one access pit measuring 2.6m x 1.2m x 1.2m in depth was carried out on 9 May and a site visit was carried out on 16 May 2024.
No potential archaeological objects, features and deposits were found during the monitoring.
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