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Excavation is an excavation, miscellaneous in Toobrackan, County Roscommon, Ireland. Archaeological testing during 2009 on the N5 Ballaghadereen bypass identified pits that became Toobrackan 1. A later excavation revealed four aligned pits and two hearths intermixed with the field system associated with the rath. One pit produced a C14 date of 2861-2576 cal.

Situated on a gentle S-facing slope with a NW-SE stream c. 190m to the SW, and just W of rath (RO008-023----). Archaeological testing (09E0475) during 2009 on the route of the N5 Ballaghadereen bypass identified a number of pits in a concentrated area that was set aside for resolution as Toobrackan 1 (O'Neill 2009, 17-8; 2012). An arc (Wth 10-40m) was excavated (10E0301) outside the exclusion zone of the rath (Wth 20m) SW-NE, which revealed a line of four pits (diam. 0.5-0.8m; D 0.15-0.5m) or post-holes aligned NW-SE, c. 30m W of the rath. One pit produced a C14 date of 2861-2576 cal. BC. There were two hearths c. 40m to the SW of the pits, one of which produced a C14 date of 2113-1900 cal. BC. These features were intermixed with elements of the field system (RO008-023001-) associated with the rath. (Kyle and Delaney 2011a, 2-3; Delaney et al. 2016, 82-3) Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload: 9 February, 2012

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