County: Down Site name: DRUMREAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/00/61
Author: Eoin Halpin, ADS
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 745520m, N 860498m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.472084, -5.754822
Testing here of a proposed house development revealed nothing of archaeological significance. The development is located immediately to the north of Kilcarn graveyard, SMR 16:23, which is enclosed by a stone wall and abuts the house site to the south-east. The graveyard is noted as containing primitive 18th-century gravestones. Documentary evidence notes that the church at Dramcro (now Drumreagh), which is listed in the 1306 taxation of Drumcreagh Townland, was associated with a graveyard at Kilkeeran. It is believed that Kilcarn is a modern adaptation of Kilkeeran. No visible evidence of the church remains within the site.
The testing revealed that bedrock lay a mere 0.2m below the present ground surface in the south-west corner of the proposed development area, which gave way to a mixture of weathered bedrock and clay and finally pure clay towards the east side of the site.
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