County: Donegal Site name: CLONMASS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1811
Author: Billy Quinn, Moore Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 600551m, N 935683m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.168447, -7.991339
Testing involving the excavation of four trenches was carried out at the site of a proposed dwelling-house at Clonmass, Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal. The site, adjacent to a cromlech, is on a hillside with a thin cover of soil over natural bedrock. The site, marked ‘Cromlech’ on the OS revision of 1900, is described in The archaeological inventory of County Donegal as appearing ‘to be a natural boulder’.
Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered in any of the trenches. The area was on a steep and rocky slope with a thin covering of topsoil over natural bedrock.
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