2007:333 - Knocknakielt, Derry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Derry Site name: Knocknakielt

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/07/77

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 687452m, N 898621m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.827833, -6.638955

An archaeological evaluation took place at a site in advance of development at Knocknakielt, Maghera. The site lies close to an Early Christian rath (LDY036–002). The archaeological programme of works involved the monitoring of the foundation for a new dwelling. Nothing of archaeological significance was observed.