County: Donegal Site name: DONEGAL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0765
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: Pier/Jetty
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 592853m, N 878595m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.655489, -8.110752
A new pumping house is to be built on the east shore of the channel of the River Eske beside the remains of Donegal Friary, as part of a Donegal Town main drainage scheme. The site is located to the south of Donegal Town. The river is tidal at this point.
Karl Brady, of the Underwater Archaeological Unit, Dúchas The Heritage Service, observed the remains of a stone-and-wood structure in the foreshore close to the site of the proposed pumping house. He identified this as the remains of a possible jetty.
The writer visited the site during test boreholing to ensure that the jetty was not damaged during this work.
A complete site assessment is to be carried out prior to construction of the pumping station.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
