County: Derry Site name: MAGHERAMENAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/00/41
Author: Stephen Gilmore, NAC
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 685733m, N 939082m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.191552, -6.653585
This excavation was in the same field as the previous Magheramenagh excavations (see Excavations 2000, No. 163), on land off Magheramenagh Park, Portrush, but was for a different developer. Excavations had previously been carried out further to the north in 1999 (Excavations 1999, 38–40) and 2000.
The site lay in the extreme north-east of County Derry, on the southern outskirts of Portrush. The land under development sloped gradually down to the north, was relatively flat and was between 20m and 30m above sea level. The topsoil was a yellow/brown, sandy loam overlying a glacial till subsoil with varying levels of sandiness and basalt bedrock. Magheramenagh means ‘the middle plain’.
Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.
Unit 6, Farset Enterprise Park, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast
