County: Down Site name: BURREN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/33
Author: Kara Ward, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 713886m, N 820657m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.122336, -6.257770
An archaeological evaluation was required in advance of the construction of a meeting house. The site is located c. 75m south-east of an enclosure (DOW051–072) that is situated in a large, low-lying field and was identified by aerial photography. There are, however, no visible surface remains. Five test-trenches (three measuring c. 70m by 2m and two measuring c. 50m by 2m) were excavated across the site of the proposed development and through peat, with a depth of up to 2.2m. A number of modern stone-filled drains were found to cut through the site. The remains of a field boundary were uncovered in four of the trenches. It was clear to see where the field boundary had originally joined the adjacent field; it had probably been taken out in recent times to enlarge the field. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered in any of the trenches.
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN
