County: Donegal Site name: LISNENAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 53:17 Licence number: 01E0233
Author: Declan Moore, Moore Archaeological and Environmental Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 621812m, N 941272m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.218176, -7.657227
Monitoring was carried out on 20 and 21 March 2001 on the site of the proposed development of sixteen two-storey semi-detached dwelling-houses and associated services and access road at Lisnenan, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. The proposed development is on a south-facing slope, at the base of which there is a holy well, marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS maps. No traditions are associated with the well.
The underlying geology consists of a compact mid-brown gravelly silt with inclusions of frequent small to medium-sized, both rounded and angular, stones. This stratum consistently overlay a mid-olive to yellowish-brown sandy silty boulder clay and schist bedrock exposed at the base of excavations.
Nothing of archaeological significance was noted during the course of monitoring.
200 Dún na Coiribe, Galway
