County: Donegal Site name: NEW PIER, Donegal
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0232
Author: James Lyttleton, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 592553m, N 878095m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.650993, -8.115387
Test excavations at the New Pier, Donegal town, were carried out in the vicinity of an archaeological structure/quay adjacent to Donegal Friary. Under the Donegal Main Drainage Scheme it was proposed to construct a pump station with an access ramp on the foreshore between the New Pier and the archaeological structure/quay. The immediate area around the pump-house was to be raised to mitigate the tidal action. It was proposed to construct three pipelines leading from the area of the pump-house out to the main channel of the River Eske. The foreshore consists of exposed bedrock toward the landward side, with shingle and estuarine mud extending out toward the low-water mark. The site commands a view of Donegal Bay as it opens south-westward from the River Eske.
Three parallel trenches were opened across the proposed pump-house site. A further three trenches were opened along the line of the proposed pipelines. There was no indication of any archaeological features in the area of proposed development.
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