1996:009 - ROUGHFORT, Craigarogan, Antrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim Site name: ROUGHFORT, Craigarogan

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 51:42 Licence number:

Author: Declan P. Hurl, Environment and Heritage Service, DoE(NI)

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 736822m, N 883993m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.685461, -5.877978

The construction of two houses on the site of a medieval church and cemetery required an initial investigation.

A brief examination revealed that the overburden lay directly on the subsoil, confirming the verbal account that the area had been heavily disturbed thirty years previously. No archaeological remains survived.

5–33 Hill St., Belfast BTJ 2LA