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2025:153 - Kilbride, Swinford, Mayo

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Mayo

Site name: Kilbride, Swinford

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 25E0083

Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Unit Ltd

Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21 Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth. A92 DH99.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 538200m, N 799800m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.943832, -8.941337

A total of 7 trenches were excavated. Each trench measured 1.8m in width, and a total of 525m of linear trenches were excavated. The topsoil was a mainly dark brown silty peat. The natural varied greatly from sand to gravel to wet peat to clay. Modern materials were noted in the topsoil, including concrete, plastic, cloth, barbed wire, glass, and modern ceramics. No archaeological structures, features or deposits were observed or exposed within the trenches. The proposed development will have no impact on any archaeology. No further work is recommended.


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