2003:385 - BALLYSHANNON/BUNDORAN BYPASS, Donegal

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Donegal Site name: BALLYSHANNON/BUNDORAN BYPASS

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1012

Author: Brian O’Donnchadha

Site type: Graveyard, Road - road/trackway and Bastioned fort

Period/Dating: Multi-period

ITM: E 587561m, N 861634m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.502988, -8.192042

Centre-line testing took place on the proposed Ballyshannon/Bundoran Bypass. The sites identified during this work included a medieval cemetery, a possible trackway and a 17th-century military enclosure, which is believed to date to the Cromwellian siege of Ballyshannon.

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