2005:548 - KILLESHER, Fermanagh

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Fermanagh

Site name: KILLESHER

Sites and Monuments Record No.: FER228:056–7 and FER228:059

Licence number: AE/05/132

Author: Cormac McSparron, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork

Author/Organisation Address: School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 618645m, N 855908m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.451352, -7.712502

This proposed single-house development was within 200m of a ringfort, St Lasser’s Well and Killesher Church, an early church site. Five test-trenches, each measuring 2m by 25m, were excavated on the part of the development site suggested for the location of the house footprint. The test-trenches were excavated using a mechanical digger equipped with a toothless sheugh bucket. No archaeological features or artefacts were uncovered.