County: Donegal Site name: Letterkenny and environs
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0359
Author: James McKee, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, 110 Amiens Street, Dublin 1.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 615448m, N 910488m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.941851, -7.758900
Monitoring of groundworks as part of the Letterkenny water supply augmentation scheme was conducted in two phases prior to the construction of a water treatment plant in Creeve townland, and an associated pipeline linking the plant to a reservoir on a hill near the centre of Letterkenny.
Phase 1 comprised topsoil-stripping in the area where the treatment plant and access road were to be constructed. This work began on 29 March and was completed in early May 2007. The water treatment plant was located on a low-lying area of ground on the south bank of the Swilly River. The site of the plant was connected to the public road by an access road, c. 180m long and c. 20m wide.
Phase 2 comprised archaeological monitoring and commenced on 25 July and was completed on 18 September 2007. This phase involved the digging of a pipe trench, c. 2km long, 0.8m wide and 1m deep, running in a south-westerly direction from a reservoir off the Ard O’Donnell Road in the centre of town, through Slate Row, Convent Road, Cathedral Road, Ard O’Donnell Road and the area between the water treatment plant and the Slate Road beside O’Donnell Park. Nothing of archaeological significance was found.
