County: Antrim Site name: Carrickfergus Castle, Carrickfergus
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ANT052–059 Licence number: AE/08/115
Author: Cormac McSparron, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast.
Site type: Monitoring
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 741351m, N 887243m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.713384, -5.806217
Monitoring of the replacement of service pipes was carried out at ground to the north of the gatehouse of Carrickfergus Castle, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim. The excavated trenches followed the line of pre-existing pipes. A basalt block wall was encountered in the section of the trench. It is thought to date to the 19th or early 20th centuries, based on evidence from the NIEA’s photographic archive, although there was no artefactual or stratigraphic evidence to confirm this.
