County: Tyrone Site name: 22A–32 MOLESWORTH STREET, COOKSTOWN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 29:67 Licence number: AE/05/55
Author: Moira O’Rourke, ADS Ltd, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast, Co. Antrim, BT12 5BJ.
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 681134m, N 878495m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.648114, -6.742878
Testing took place at Nos 22A–32 Molesworth Street, Cookstown, in advance of redevelopment. The site is situated within the southern limit of the 17th-century plantation settlement. Five test-trenches were mechanically excavated across the site and revealed a subsoil of orange sandy clay overlaid by a series of alluvial and peat deposits with a depth of between 0.7–1m. Through these deposits were situated both red-brick and concrete wall foundations, the remains of a light railway track noted on the second-edition OS map (1857) and modern drains. The red-brick foundations appear to relate to buildings shown extant on the site from the first-edition OS map (1834), while those of concrete appear to relate to the redevelopment of the site as a cattle market in the mid-20th century. There was no sign of any activity on site dating earlier than the 18th /19th century.
