Excavation - miscellaneous

The National Monuments Service's description

On a N and E-facing slope of a low hillock. Archaeological excavation (E3270) during 2007 at Ardagawna 1 as part of the Athlone to Ballinasloe N6 road development revealed three pits (diam. 1.4-1.7m; D 0.2-0.4m) with bunrt bases. They contained some chared cereals and redeposited burnt subsoil, and one had fragments of burnt bone. They can be interpreted as possible corn-drying kilns, and the proven corn-drying kiln (RO052-031002-) c. 50m to the SW may be related, However, the ring-ditch (RO052-031001-) and the structure (RO052-031004-), c. 50m and 30m to the S of these pits, are probably earlier, and the burial (RO052-031003-) is probably later. (Ó Séaghdha 2010a; 2010d, 14-16)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Amended: 25 November, 2013

References

Ó Séaghdha, L. 2010a Ardagawna 1. Bronze Age ring-ditch/early medieval activity/human burial. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 288-9, No. 841. Dublin. Wordwell.

Ó Séaghdha, L. 2010d N6 Ballinasloe–Athlone National Road Scheme. Final report on the excavation of multi-period prehistoric features, early medieval agri-industrial activity and early modern burial in the townland of Ardagawna, Co. Roscommon. E3270, Ardagowna 1. PDF report available on CD-ROM in N. Jackman, C. Moore and C. Rynne 2013 The Mill at Kilbegly: an archaeological investigation on the route of the M6 Ballinasloe to Athlone national road scheme. NRA Scheme Monographs 12. Dublin. National Roads Authority.