2025:160 - Cullagh More, Carney, Sligo

A total of 15 trenches were proposed for excavation, placed across the footprint of the development. Each trench measured 1.8m in width. Due to constraints (overhead electricity wires and a fence dividing the site into two fields), five of the trenches were split into two. In total, 954m of linear trenches were excavated. The topsoil ranged from a wet, brown clay to an orangish-brown, clayey silt. The natural varied from a mottled grey and yellow clayey sand to a grey gravel to a light grey and yellow clay. A small number of modern field ditches and drains were noted in the trenches.  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.