County: Donegal Site name: RATHMULLAN: Wesleyan Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0375
Author: Teresa Bolger, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 629548m, N 927565m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.094631, -7.537086
A programme of test excavation and monitoring was carried out at the site of a proposed housing development off Wesleyan Street, Rathmullan, Co. Donegal. The site is located directly north of Rathmullan Priory, founded in 1516 by the Carmelite order under the patronage of Owen Roe MacSweeney.
A test excavation had already been carried out at the site by Declan Moore (see Excavations 2000, No. 189). Though this produced evidence for high levels of disturbance across most of the site, a single inhumation oriented roughly east–west with the head to the west was identified in the south-east corner of the site. As a result, the development plans were altered to leave this area undisturbed. A further programme of test excavation was undertaken by the writer. This confirmed the disturbed nature of the greater part of the site and indicated that the revised development plan was unlikely to affect any archaeological material.
Monitoring of the excavation of foundation trenches and service trenches at the site was also undertaken. No archaeological material was uncovered.
8 Dungar Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
