County: Tyrone Site name: Rahony
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TYR050–028 Licence number: AE/06/222
Author: T.R. Kerr, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 680454m, N 898531m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.828197, -6.747868
The second edition of the OS maps shows double field boundaries around the top of a drumlin in the townland of Rahony, recorded in the SMR as a potential archaeological monument. A later review of the SMR reclassified the site as a ‘non-antiquity’.
Three test-trenches were excavated to evaluate the impact of the proposed construction of a dwelling, detached garage and services on any potential archaeological remains. The soil on top of the drumlin was very shallow (maximum depth of 0.15m to the boulder clay) and appears to have been deepened by manuring, suggesting that previously the topsoil was even shallower. Nothing of archaeological significance was found during this excavation.
