2003:407 - DRUMACRIN, Donegal

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Donegal Site name: DRUMACRIN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0617

Author: Fiona Rooney, Arch. Consultancy Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 582765m, N 858875m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.478055, -8.265925

Monitoring of ground disturbance associated with the development of a parcel of land at Drumacrin, Bundoran, was required. The initial development concerned all internal roadways and 38 dwelling-houses. The stratigraphy encountered consisted of sod and topsoil overlying an orange/yellow clayey subsoil which overlay a natural marl. Finds from the site included 20th-century pottery and glass fragments recovered from the topsoil layer.

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