2006:145 - TANDRAGEE: Glebe Hill Road, Armagh

In advance of a proposed housing development off Glebe Hill Road, Tandragee, Co. Armagh, a number of test-trenches were excavated along the footprints of dwellings within the grounds of a 19th-century mill complex. The greatest concentration of features was found in the eastern area of the site. This was primarily comprised of stone and mortar or concrete block walls, the remains of various phases of building associated with the textile factory. The walls were probably erected from the end of the 19th century onwards. The earliest activity uncovered within the test-trenches was the red-brick culvert of probable late Victorian date. The trenches revealed an area heavily disturbed by modern activity, in the form of the demolition of older (stone-and-mortar) walls, the frequent presence of concrete block walls and modern services in the form of plastic water pipes and electricity cables which criss-crossed the eastern half of the site.

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