Excavation - miscellaneous

The National Monuments Service's description

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

References

Kyle, J. and Delaney, S. 2011a N5 Ballaghaderreen bypass. Toobraockan 1, miscellaneous; Toobrackan 2, fulacht fia. Final report. Irish Archaeological Consultancy. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Licence no. 10E0301.

Delaney, S., J. Kyle and D. Bayley 2016 Working the margin. The archaeology of the N5 Ballaghaderreen Bypass road project. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society, vol. 13, 81-7.