County: Donegal Site name: ELEVEN BALLYBOES
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E1170
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 665242m, N 940776m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.209894, -6.974925
Pre-development testing was carried out on 17 October 2005 at a site in advance of its development at Eleven Ballyboes, Greencastle, Co. Donegal. The proposed development consisted of the demolition of a two-storey house and outbuildings and the construction of a restaurant/bistro/teahouse, two apartments, a wastewater treatment plant with integrated pumps and an interceptor grease trap and car parking. The house was of 19th/20th-century date with a tarmac and concreted yard and a gravelled area to the rear. It backed onto Lough Foyle.
Four trenches were excavated, which measured between 13.2m and 18.7m long, 1.1–1.6m wide and 0.15–1.6m deep. Below the rubble fill, topsoil, tarmac and concrete on the surface, were dark-brown friable sandy silt loam and two rubble wall foundations (associated with the demolished house). Below the loam and the foundations was bedrock and rust/grey loose loamy sand. The rubble fill contained red brick, slates, mortar, modern pottery sherds and a number of modern services. The loam contained one modern pottery sherd and one red-brick fragment.
4 Lecka Grove, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
