County: Armagh Site name: Marlacoo Beg
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/08/98
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 698680m, N 844782m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.342179, -6.482372
A phased archaeological investigation was carried out at a proposed development site in advance of the construction of a single dwelling. The site is near to a possible crannog on Marlacoo Lake (ARM013–015), and the area was of importance during the military campaigns of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The initial phase of the investigation involved the manual excavation of four 1m2 test-pits in the area of the proposed development. Apart from a small quantity of post-medieval pottery sherds, nothing of archaeological significance was encountered in the test-pits. The second phase of the investigation involved monitoring of the mechanical removal of topsoil to the surface of the natural subsoil, across the dwelling footprint. This area, measuring 16m (north–south) by 19.5m, revealed nothing of archaeological significance.
