County: Down Site name: erryleckagh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: AE/06/215
Author: Brian Sloan, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN.
Site type: No archaeological significance.
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 712357m, N 825246m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.163890, -6.279451
An archaeological evaluation was carried out at a site 150m north of 45 Derryleckagh Road, Newry, Co. Down, in response to a planning application for a new dwelling. A megalithic tomb known locally as ‘the long lady’s grave’ (DOW051–009) is situated c. 70m south of the application site.
The evaluation consisted of nine test-trenches within the area of the proposed development. The trenches varied in length, with seven measuring 45m by 2m and two measuring 80m by 2m. The trenches were mechanically excavated to the surface of the natural subsoil. Nothing of archaeological significance was encountered in any of the trenches.
