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Full topsoil removal in advance of the construction of the N26, Ballina-Bohola road, Stage I, at Carrowntreila, was monitored for Mayo County Council. This section of the road consisted of a 4.5 km-long corridor located immediately south of Ballina town. Two main archaeological sites, a fulacht fiadh (03E0802) and a corn-drying kiln, were newly identified and excavated during the course of the scheme. The kiln was situated on the south-east-facing slope of a large drumlin less than 100m to the south-east of a Ringfort (RMP-39:79 enclosure 03E0896). It consisted of a stone-lined keyhole-shaped cut which had five distinct fills. Collapsed elements of the stone lining were interspersed through these fills. The kiln was orientated north-west/south-east. The north-western extent of the structure, the bowl, was virtually complete, while the south-eastern limit was disturbed. The bowl was sub-circular in plan, measuring 0.7-0.8 m in internal diameter at its base, widening to 1m internal diameter at the top, with a maximum depth of 0.58 m. The flue extended from the bowl in an east-south-east direction. The flue lining survived to a length of 1.4 m, culminating at the fire-spot. Charcoal from the kiln has been radio-carbon dated to AD 1214-272 placing it in the early medieval period and is likely to be contemporaneous with the nearby bi-valet ringfort (RMP No. MA-39:79). The majority of the identifiable grains from the kiln were of wheat (Appendix 2).