County: Donegal Site name: Cockhill
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E0178
Author: Maurice F. Hurley, 6 Clarence Court, St Luke’s, Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance.
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 635345m, N 933251m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.145340, -7.445570
Testing was carried out as a condition of planning prior to the development of a new access road and housing development at Cockhill, Buncrana, Co. Donegal.
Four test-trenches were excavated. The only evidence of human activity on the site aboveground was drystone walls surrounding and separating the fields. The testing revealed that the only below-ground activity was the presence of the remnants of fence posts and a drain that appears to have been an attempt to drain/improve the land in the recent past. No finds or features of archaeological significance were recorded.
