County: Donegal Site name: BALLINTEMPLE, Falcarragh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 25:39 Licence number: 02E0909
Author: Tom Rogers, Moore Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 593795m, N 930756m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.124145, -8.097276
Testing was carried out on 24 June 2002 in compliance with a condition of planning permission for the construction of eight houses. The site lies partly within the constraint area of SMR 25:40, an unlocated holy well, and close to SMR 25:39, a ringfort. Another ringfort (SMR 25:43), the ruined Tullaghobegley Church (SMR 25:42) and the site of a removed court tomb (SMR 25:41) are nearby. Before testing, a well-preserved limekiln was observed in the southern part of the site, but this will not be affected by the proposed development.
Seventeen trenches were opened, all revealing a similar stratigraphy. Topsoil and sod consistently overlay blue/grey boulder clay, which in turn overlay an iron-rich, yellow/brown clay with fragments of schist bedrock. Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded in any of the trenches.
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