County: Tyrone Site name: Ballywholan
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/296
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 685983m, N 872486m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.593337, -6.669531
The mechanical excavation of three test-trenches was carried out at a site 180m north-east of 78 Coagh Road, Ballywholan, Stewartstown, Co. Tyrone. An ecclesiastical site (TYR039–007) is located c. 200m to the north-east of the application site.
An examination of the present-day field boundaries suggested that the application site might be situated within a large oval-shaped enclosure associated with the ecclesiastical site. This information prompted the archaeological mitigation.
The trenches measured 20m by 2m and were positioned in the area of the proposed development. The trenches contained some evidence of agricultural activity (such as modern field drains), but nothing of archaeological significance.
