County: Fermanagh Site name: TULLY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/054
Author: Cormac McSparron, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 612588m, N 856180m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.453980, -7.805873
An evaluation was carried out at a proposed housing site located in Tully, Co. Fermanagh, close to the site of a court tomb (FER172–023) which was excavated by Dudley Waterman in 1976 (Waterman 1978). Five trenches were excavated using a mechanical digger equipped with a toothless sheugh bucket. Trenches 1 and 2 measured 2m by 50m, Trenches 3–5 measured 2m by 20m. No archaeological features or artefacts were uncovered.
Reference
Waterman, D.M. 1978 The excavation of a court cairn at Tully, County Fermanagh. UJA 41, 3–14.
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University, Belfast
