County: Down Site name: BALLYGOWAN: 31 Magherascouse Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/02/63
Author: Cia McConway, ADS Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 743880m, N 864508m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.508547, -5.778146
It is proposed to install a 15m-high column, antenna, equipment container, meter cabinet, microwave dish and ancillary equipment in the immediate vicinity of a rath, SMR 16:7. The proposed development comprises the construction of a base measuring 3m by 3m along the south-eastern edge of the rath, the removal of an adjacent drystone wall and the extension of the existing temporary access road from the Magherascouse Road to a farm complex at 31 Magherascouse Road, Ballygowan, Co. Down. Although there has been previous disturbance to the rath on the eastern side by the construction of buildings, the proposed development could have had implications for any subsurface archaeological activity that may have survived in the development area.
Nothing of archaeological significance was found.
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