County: Donegal Site name: GREENHILL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 25:11 Licence number: 01E0568
Author: Declan Moore, Moore Archaeological and Environmental Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 600461m, N 934610m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.158803, -7.992766
Testing was carried out in the townland of Greenhill, Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal, on 5 July 2001 on the site of a proposed dwelling-house and percolation area. The site is south-east of a possible megalithic tomb, marked on the OS maps as a burial-ground.
Three machine-cut test-trenches were excavated. The underlying geology in the area consists of quartzite, a dolomitic marble and schist. Topsoil and sod was 0.2–0.3m in depth and consistently overlay a greyish brown silty subsoil with frequent inclusions of small to medium-sized stones.
Testing in the field revealed nothing of archaeological significance.
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