County: Derry Site name: KILLCRANNY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/05/03
Author: Peter Bowen, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 682785m, N 934478m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.150699, -6.701222
Trial-trenching was undertaken at a site located in the townland of Killcranny, Co. Derry, in advance of the construction of a wastewater pipeline and several pumping stations in the vicinity of Coleraine along the north coast. An unlocated ecclesiastical site (SMR 3:63) was recorded within the townland of Killcranny, while the proposed route of the pipeline ran close to a curving field boundary suggestive of it being a remnant of an enclosure associated with the unlocated site.
Six trenches were excavated to subsoil within the proposed wayleave, across two adjacent fields, in the vicinity of the possible ecclesiastical site. While a small number of possible archaeological deposits were uncovered in two of the trenches, there was no trace of the ecclesiastical site. The location of the deposits was recorded, but they were not investigated further, as resolution will be undertaken if encroached on during the mainline stripping for the pipeline.
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