2006:454 - LOUGH ESKE CASTLE, Lough Eask Demesne, Donegal

NMI Burial Excavation Records

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)

Author/Organisation Address: East Belfast Enterprise, 308 Albertbridge Road, BT5 4GX

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.