2009:211 - PORT, Inver, Donegal
County: Donegal
Site name: PORT, Inver
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 09D11; 09R31
Author: Eoghan Kieran, Moore Marine Services
Author/Organisation Address: Corporate House, Ballybrit Business Park, Galway
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 580040m, N 877039m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.641159, -8.309192
Moore Marine was commissioned by Doran Consulting on behalf of Donegal County Council to carry out an underwater impact assessment on a proposed pier development and dredging scheme at Port, Inver, Co. Donegal. The underwater site survey was carried out in January 2009. It recorded that the current Inver Pier was a stone and concrete structure extending north-easterly from the shore. It was bounded immediately to the north and west by a
long, sweeping sandy beach. This uniformly flat sandy substrate extended from the coastal fringe to the northern side of the pier.
The seabed to the east, south and west of the pier was markedly different to the northern area. Extending south from the eastern terminus of the existing pier was a north–south-orientated pier approach channel. This exclusively sandy passage was bounded both to the east and the west by a rocky, gravel seabed which had moderate coverage of kelp. The underwater visual survey did not record the presence of any archaeological features or deposits in the survey area.
The metal-detector survey recorded twelve metal-detector contacts for the seabed area. None were archaeological.