County: Derry Site name: Downeen, Rosscarbery
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO143–099 Licence number: 08E0001
Author: Deborah Sutton, Sheila Lane & Associates, Deanrock Business Park, Togher, Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 528216m, N 536374m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.575335, -9.035651
Testing was carried out as part of a request for further information, as a result of a planning application to demolish a farmhouse and to construct 26 dwellings at a site in the townland of Downeen, to the immediate south of the historic town of Rosscarbery in west Cork. The farm building on the site is shown on the first edition of the OS maps for the area.
Testing was carried out in January 2008. Seven trenches were excavated and exposed 0.1–0.3m of topsoil overlying a pale grey/orange boulder clay subsoil. A backfilled slurry pit was exposed in the south-east corner of the site. Nothing of an archaeological nature was noted.
