County: Donegal Site name: THE DIAMOND, Donegal
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 30:13 Licence number: 00E0697
Author: Declan Moore, Moore Archaeological and Environmental Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 592862m, N 878397m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.653702, -8.110611
Monitoring was carried out on the site of the proposed conversion and extension to the rear of the AIB building at the Diamond, Donegal, Co. Donegal. Monitoring was carried out between 6 and 28 October 2000.
The site is bounded to the west by a high wall, separating it from a roadway and the Eske River. It is located on a gently rising slope. To the north and south it is bounded by the Abbey Hotel and the Central Hotel respectively.
Bedrock was sealed by a series of compact, yellow/brown, sandy clays, which in turn underlay mixed deposits of dark brown silt and gravel with frequent inclusions of red brick. This deposit appears to represent deliberate deposition to level up the existing slope and was subsequently used as a yard and later as a parking area. This deposit was overlain by a layer of rounded cobbles and tarmac. The site was truncated throughout by a number of modern pipelines and was heavily disturbed. Nothing of archaeological significance was observed.
200 Dún na Coiribe, Galway
