What is recorded here

Excavation is an excavation, miscellaneous in Gortnacrannagh, County Roscommon, Ireland. Aidan O’Connell tested the gentle NE-facing slope and identified two linear furrows plus an isolated sub-oval pit 1.7m wide, 1.45m long and 0.13m deep. Roscommon County Council commissioned the work for the N5 Ballaghaderreen - Scramoge road development.

First identified in an unpublished archaeological LiDAR report (Davis, 2015) and unpublished archaeo-geophysical report (Bonsall & Gimson 2015) commissioned by Roscommon County Council as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the N5 Ballaghaderreen - Scramoge road development. It is located on a gentle NE-facing slope. While the LiDAR image shows a small circular feature that might be surrounded by a bank (Davis 2015, 116, No. 45.4) there is no surface indication of an antiquity. The area has also been tested archaeologically (Licence 15E0588) by Aidan O’Connell, who identified two linear features likely to be furrows and an isolated sub-oval pit (dims 1.7m E-W; 1.45m N-S; D 0.13m) (O’Connell, forthcoming). Compiled by : Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 5 August, 2016

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