County: Donegal Site name: LOUGH ESKE CASTLE, Lough Eask Demesne
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0657
Author: Ciara MacManus, FarrimondMacManus Ltd (Belfast)
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 595712m, N 882225m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.688129, -8.066494
Test-trenching was carried out at a site of proposed development at Lough Eske Castle, Co. Donegal, between 25 October and 4 November 2006. All mechanical ground breaking was conducted by means of a back-acting mechanical excavator furnished with a toothless, flat-bottomed ditching bucket (sheugh bucket). Overlying deposits measured a depth of 0.5m on average, and their removal revealed natural subsoil. No archaeological deposits or remains were identified during the course of testing at the site.
East Belfast Enterprise, 308 Albertbridge Road, BT5 4GX
