2002:0422 - FIGART, Donegal
County: Donegal
Site name: FIGART
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 15:28
Licence number: 02E1210
Author: Tom Rogers, Moore Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 6, Riveroaks, Claregalway, Co. Galway
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 601521m, N 936503m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.175811, -7.976113
Testing was carried out as part of a condition of planning permission for the construction of five houses and a Puraflo treatment plant in the townland of Figart, slightly to the south of Dunfanaghy. Ten test-trenches were excavated by machine on 29 July 2002. The development is close to a court tomb, recorded as having been moved in 1842.
Stratigraphy was variable across the site, ranging from a thin topsoil over natural boulder clay at the top of the field to a considerable thickness of peat at the lower end. Three linear features running down the slope were uncovered, all interpreted as drains. Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded.