County: Donegal Site name: FIGART
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 15:28 Licence number: 02E1210
Author: Tom Rogers, Moore Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 601521m, N 936503m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.175811, -7.976113
Testing was carried out as part of a condition of planning permission for the construction of five houses and a Puraflo treatment plant in the townland of Figart, slightly to the south of Dunfanaghy. Ten test-trenches were excavated by machine on 29 July 2002. The development is close to a court tomb, recorded as having been moved in 1842.
Stratigraphy was variable across the site, ranging from a thin topsoil over natural boulder clay at the top of the field to a considerable thickness of peat at the lower end. Three linear features running down the slope were uncovered, all interpreted as drains. Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded.
Unit 6, Riveroaks, Claregalway, Co. Galway
