County: Fermanagh Site name: KINAWLEY/DERRYLIN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/00/02
Author: Malachy Conway, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 628195m, N 826786m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.189245, -7.567994
Monitoring of ground reduction works and excavation of the service trench for the insertion of a section of trunk main water pipe from Kinawley to Derrylin, Co. Fermanagh, was undertaken between 24 January and 17 February 2000. Though mainly inserted along existing roadways and laneways, it passed through several areas of pasture and crossed one small stream. Monitoring took place along the southern section of the trunk main between Ch. 21050m, south of the Drum Road crossing, to Ch. 22835m, approximately 250m west of the Derrylin crossroads. Carrowcarlan burnt mound (SMR 260:48) lies 15m west of the laneway at the southern end of the trunk main.
The 160mm trunk main water pipe was laid within a trench c. 0.9m wide and at most 1.9m deep. A corridor 5m wide was stripped of topsoil within greenfield areas to facilitate the excavation of the pipe-trench. In general, topsoil 0.3m deep overlay grey-brown boulder clay, except in a waterlogged area (Ch. 21835 to Ch. 22050) where peaty topsoil up to 0.4m deep and containing organic debris, including small branches and at least one fallen tree stump, overlay blue-grey boulder clay. The pipe-trench crossed a stream at Ch. 22796, which also bounds the burnt mound site SMR 260:48. No features, soils or deposits of archaeological potential were revealed, and, somewhat significantly, very few field drains were encountered even in areas where the underlying subsoil comprised plastic and non-porous boulder clay.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
