County: Donegal Site name: QUIGLEY'S POINT, Carrowkeel
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 30:12 Licence number: 99E0679
Author: Declan Moore
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 651349m, N 931130m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.124881, -7.194928
Testing was carried out on the site of the proposed development of eleven houses, a roadway, a sewage treatment plant and related percolation area east of Quigley's Point in the vicinity of the site of a burial-ground at Carrowkeel td, Co. Donegal, at the north-east of the shore of Lough Foyle. The site is on a south-south-west-facing slope, at the base of which is a north-west/south-east-flowing stream.
Testing was carried out on 27 November 1999. Using a wide, toothless trenching bucket, twenty test-trenches were excavated.
The natural olive to yellow/brown subsoil was sealed by a series of deposits of silts, gravels and sands. These strata in turn underlay a deposit of small to medium-sized stones, widely undulating sod and topsoil.
Nothing of archaeological significance was noted.
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