County: Donegal Site name: Carrowcanon
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DG025–032 Licence number: 07E0013
Author: Richard Crumlish, 4 Lecka Grove, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 594780m, N 932925m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.143638, -8.081876
Pre-development testing was carried out on 8 January 2007 at a site in Carrowcanon, Falcarragh, Co. Donegal. The proposed development was located within the archaeological constraint for an enclosure site, marked on the OS maps as ‘Cashelmacadowan Fort’. The monument was located just outside the southern boundary of the site, with its northern limit just extending into the proposed development site. The proposed development, situated in a pasture field, consisted of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, septic tank and percolation area.
The testing consisted of the excavation (by machine) of five trenches, located along the proposed driveway to and through the garage, through the centre of the proposed dwelling, along the east side of the proposed dwelling, from the proposed dwelling to the percolation area and along that section of the southern site boundary closest to the monument. The trenches measured 59.6m, 18.5m, 13.3m, 42m and 31m long respectively, 0.9–1.1m wide and 0.25–0.55m deep. Below the topsoil was orange/brown friable silt loam and blue/grey and rust-coloured compact boulder clay. Several sherds of modern pottery, mostly whiteware, were recovered from the topsoil. The testing revealed natural stratigraphy and nothing of archaeological significance.
