County: Donegal Site name: RATHMULLAN: Kerr’s Bay Road/New Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1531
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 629596m, N 927837m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.097071, -7.536306
Pre-development testing at the former Pier Hotel site, Rathmullan, Co. Donegal, was carried out on 22 September 2003. The proposed development (bar, restaurant and sixteen apartments with car-parking) was located within the archaeological constraint for Rathmullan (SMR 37:7). The removal of the floor slab during the demolition of the Pier Hotel resulted in the surface level being reduced by 0.2–1m.
Testing consisted of the excavation (by machine) of five trenches, which measured 16m, 16.5m, 26.1m, 24.55m and 7m long, respectively, 1.1–1.5m wide and 0.3–1.15m deep. Below the loose rubble fill, topsoil and tarmac on the surface was mid-brown friable sandy loam, mid-brown loose loamy sand, orange/brown friable sandy silt loam, grey/brown friable silt loam and bedrock. Rubble and red-brick wall foundations, part of the recently demolished building, were also revealed. The rubble fill and sandy loam contained modern artefacts. The topsoil contained three modern service pipes.
The testing revealed evidence of 19th- and 20th-century activity only (i.e. contemporary with the recently demolished building).
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