2003:397 - COOLCHOLLY, Donegal

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Donegal

Site name: COOLCHOLLY

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 03E1020

Author: Brian O’Donnchadha

Author/Organisation Address: 7 Pollnarooma West, Knocknacarra, Galway

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 588527m, N 862379m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.509703, -8.177160

This phase of the proposed bypass is located close to what was once the site of Assaroe Abbey, Coolcholly, Ballyshannon, a Cistercian settlement dated to between the 12th and 17th centuries. Testing in this area found nothing, due to the wet, boggy nature of the area.