County: Roscommon Site name: Monksland, Athlone
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 24E0506
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 599793m, N 741589m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.424412, -8.003114
The site at Monksland, Athlone, Co. Roscommon, was archaeologically assessed by test trenching in June 2024 in advance of development. The assessment involved the excavation of twenty-five test trenches within the site, each measuring 1.8m in width with a total of 1,026m of linear trenches excavated. In all trenches, the subsoil was exposed below the sod and topsoil at depths varying between 0.18m and 0.38m. It varied from light grey stoney gravel to orange sandy clay. No archaeological features or deposits were identified within the excavated trenches and no finds were recovered.
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