What is recorded here

Cloonturk 1 lies on a level plain in County Leitrim, where a tiny pit held charcoal and small stones before modern drains cut through the earth. The marks may belong to prehistoric hands, though no object remains to prove it. Forgetting is not the same as losing; it is a invitation to imagine the life that disappeared.

Situated on a fairly level landscape. First identified in centre-line testing (05E0983) for a new line of the N4 (O’Connor et al. 2005, 26), and later fully resolved (E003293) as Cloonturk 1. A small pit (dims 0.94m x 0.7m; D 0.25m) was filled by a brown clay/sand deposit with charcoal inclusions and small stones but no artefacts were recovered. It may be prehistoric as might a nearby layer (dims 1.6m x 0.82m; D 0.2m) filling a hollow, and both were stratigraphically earlier than post-medieval ditches and drains. An unmapped drain (L 50m; Wth 1.5m D 0.25-0.4m 32) extended E-W and was probably contemporary with a N-S unmapped field drain (L 30m Wth 1.5m; D 0.35m) at its W end. (McGowan and O’Connor 2008, 14-16) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 January 2020 O’Connor, D. J., Marta Muniz Pérez and Sheelagh Conran 2005 N4 Dromod Roosky Bypass. Advance Archaeological Works Contract Licence No. 05E0983 Preliminary Report. Unpublished, CRDS

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