County: Derry Site name: Boleran Road, Glenkeen
Sites and Monuments Record No.: LDY018–019 Licence number: AE/08/198
Author: Peter Bowen, for Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeo-ecology, the Queen’s University of Belfast, BT7 1NN.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 681714m, N 918486m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.007242, -6.722601
An archaeological evaluation was carried out at a site just off the Boleran Road, Gleenkeen, Garvagh, Co. Derry, as part of a farm nutrient management scheme (slurry tank). LDY018–019, a counterscarp rath, is located within a neighbouring field and although no trace of it was visible within the area of monitoring there was a possibility that it would have originally extended into the site. The rath is recorded on the first- to third-edition OS maps as running into the northern half of the development site.
The evaluation comprised of the monitoring of topsoil removal within an area measuring 30m east–west by 15m. Upon removal of the topsoil it became evident that the site had been disturbed both by the construction of an animal pen to the north and by farm machinery. No trace of the rath, or any other archaeological deposits, was found within the site.
