County: Donegal Site name: Kilbarron
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DG103–054, DG103–056 Licence number: 07E0280
Author: Richard Crumlish, 4 Lecka Grove, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 585122m, N 865106m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.534121, -8.229864
Pre-development testing was carried out on 12 April 2007 at a site in Kilbarron townland, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal. The proposed development, the construction of a house, was located within the archaeological constraint for a cashel site, an enclosure site and souterrain in an overgrown pasture field.
The testing consisted of the excavation (by machine) of five trenches, which measured 34.4m, 13.3m, 19.6m, 30.5m and 21.3m long respectively, 0.9–1.5m wide and 0.1–1.7m deep. Below the modern fill and topsoil were orange/brown plastic sandy clay, bedrock, orange/grey/brown friable sandy silt loam, orange/grey/brown firm clay and grey/orange/brown firm sandy clay loam. The fill contained several modern pottery sherds, concrete and plastic. The topsoil contained modern pottery sherds. A modern plastic land drain crossed one of the trenches.
The testing revealed, with the exception of the fill in one of the trenches, evidence of natural undisturbed stratigraphy and nothing of archaeological significance.
