County: Derry Site name: COLERAINE: New Row
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: N.F. Brannon, DoE
Site type: House - fortified house
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 684833m, N 932283m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.130644, -6.669746
Excavation in advance of redevelopment of the site recovered the plan of a house erected in c.1674, the roof of which survived in-situ until removed for a reconstruction in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. Finds of pottery and other artefacts from the period were retrieved from a large stone-lined rubbish pit abutting the SE corner of the house. The wide stone foundations of an earlier timber-framed house dating from 1611 were also exposed, as was a large silted ditch, medieval or earlier, which ran parallel and adjacent to the back of the 1611 structure.
Brannon, N.E. (1988) ‘Where history and archaeology unite’, Hamlin, A. & Lynn, CJ. (eds) Pieces of the Past, HMSO.
