County: Donegal Site name: BALLYSHANNON: Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0001
Author: Christiaan Corlett for John Channing
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 587654m, N 861399m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.500880, -8.190596
An archaeological assessment, in advance of a proposed supermarket development, was carried out on the site at Main Street, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal. Seven trenches were excavated mechanically in January 1997 throughout the area to be disturbed by the proposed development. All were excavated to limestone bedrock.
The four trenches in the western half of the site revealed a stratigraphy which consisted of a black humic garden topsoil above a consistent sterile layer of brown humic clay, which in turn overlay a thin layer of subsoil of gritty boulder clay. Two small trenches immediately behind the building fronting the main street indicated that the cellar of that building had been built directly on bedrock. The final cutting on the street frontage, in a garden plot within the angle formed by the L-shaped building, revealed a layer of possible boulder clay above the bedrock. Immediately above this clay were a number of layers of soil and rubble which appear to have been dumped to bring the ground level up to the level of the street. No archaeological features or finds were identified.
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