County: Donegal Site name: Drumroe
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DG080–015 Licence number: 06E0087
Author: Richard Crumlish, 4 Lecka Grove, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo.
Site type: No archaeological significance.
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 554415m, N 884886m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.709998, -8.707364
Pre-development testing was carried out on 9 and 10 February 2006 at a site at Drumroe townland, Glencolumbcille, Co. Donegal. The proposed development, the construction of five dwelling houses and a sewage treatment plant, was partially located within the archaeological constraint for a cairn, named as ‘Penitential Station’ on the 6-inch OS sheet, and located 32m away across a road.
Testing consisted of the excavation (by machine) of five trenches, which measured 60m, 29.5m, 41m, 20m and 45m long respectively, 0.9–2.3m wide and 0.2–1.5m deep. Below the topsoil was blue/grey plastic sandy clay and peat. Below the peat, which measured up to 1.3m thick, was more sandy clay and bedrock. Modern fill on the surface of one of the trenches, above the peat, was dumped on the site by the developer in 2005. One modern glass bottle was recovered from the topsoil.
Apart from the fill, the testing revealed evidence of natural undisturbed stratigraphy. Nothing of archaeological significance was revealed.
