County: Donegal Site name: CARROWKEEL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 30:13 Licence number: 99E0646
Author: Declan Moore
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 621432m, N 932314m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.137713, -7.663876
Testing was carried out on the site of the proposed development of a dwelling-house, driveway, septic tank and related percolation area in the vicinity of the site of a possible megalithic tomb at Carrowkeel, Co. Donegal, 1/4 mile north of Quigley's Point and c. 500m north-east of the shore of Lough Foyle. The site is on low ground in an area of rich pasture.
Testing was carried out on 19 November 1999. Using a wide, toothless trenching bucket, nine test-trenches were excavated. The natural, stony subsoil was sealed by a series of narrow bands of silts, gravels and sands. These strata in turn underlay a deposit of small to medium-sized stones, sod and topsoil.
Nothing of archaeological significance was noted.
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