County: Fermanagh Site name: CULLIONDOO
Sites and Monuments Record No.: FER246–043 Licence number: AE/06/281
Author: James McKee, Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: Ringfort -rath
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 637543m, N 829186m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.210206, -7.424472
Monitoring of groundworks was undertaken on a development site at Culliondoo, Lisnaskea, Co. Fermanagh, in December 2006. The site was located on and immediately east of a univallate rath measuring c. 38m in diameter, which had been bisected north–south by a public road since at least the 1830s; Sallaghy Primary School had been built upon the eastern half of the site by 1859. An approximate 20m length of rath perimeter was investigated and reduced to subsoil level. The original rath bank, as encountered during the 2005 excavation of the west side of the rath by Giles Dawkes (Excavations 2005, No. 544, AE/05/88), had been completely removed during the construction of the schoolhouse and yard. A section through the rath ditch, 5.5m wide and 1.5m deep, revealed it to have been widened and recut in recent times and been filled with dumped modern deposits and drainage stones. Unlike the 2005 excavation of the west side of the site, which produced evidence for Late Bronze Age activity, no interior features were found. No archaeological features were revealed in a c. 30m by 30m area to the east of the ditch or in areas stripped for tree planting and services.
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