County: Donegal Site name: RATHMULLAN: Wesleyan Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 37:00703 Licence number: 00E0394
Author: Declan Moore, Moore Archaeological and Environmental Services Ltd.
Site type: Burial
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 629548m, N 927565m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.094631, -7.537086
Testing was carried out on 10 June 2000 on the site of the proposed development of two single-storey semi-detached dwelling-houses and associated services off Wesleyan Street, Rathmullan, Co. Donegal. The site is located immediately to the rear of Rathmullan Priory, founded in 1516 for the Carmelite order.
The natural olive-brown, compact, silty sand subsoil was sealed by a series of deposits of post-medieval rubble, red brick and animal bone, sands and clays. These strata underlay topsoil and sod. A single child inhumation was observed at the southern part of Test-trench 3. The burial truncated the natural, olive-brown subsoil and was sealed by a layer of loose, grey, sandy clay with frequent inclusions of pebbles, small stones and occasional seashells. A second cut feature was observed to the south of the burial and continued into the southern limit of excavation. Nothing further of archaeological significance was observed.
200 Dún na Coiribe, Galway
