Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Cloonturk, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonturk
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.86662, -7.91018
- SMR number
- LE035-044----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
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 Unpublished, CRDS
References
McGowan, L. and O’Connor, D. J. 2008 N4 Dromod – Roosky Bypass. Advance Archaeological Works Contract. Cloonturk 1. Ministerial Direction A 31 (A31-006/E003293) Final Report, CRDS OD 045
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.