County: Tyrone Site name: OMAGH THROUGH PASS, OMAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/04/151
Author: Chris Farrimond, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Unit 48 Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30-50 Distillery Street, Belfast BT12 5BJ.
Site type: GNR railway embankment/cutting
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 646241m, N 871597m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.590541, -7.284539
Monitoring of topsoil-stripping associated with the construction of the Omagh through pass has identified a 13m section of French drain and a small pit. No datable finds were recovered from the pit. In addition, photographic and laser-scanning surveys have recorded a metal-girder bridge carrying the Great Northern Railway over the Drumragh River.
Works are ongoing at the road scheme and are expected to be completed early in 2005.
