County: Donegal Site name: Liafin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: DG019–014, DG019–015, DG019–013 08E0543
Author: Aaron Johnston, for Archaeological Development Services Ltd, (ADS) 110 Amiens Street, Dublin 1.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 632396m, N 937312m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.182027, -7.491367
Pre-development testing was undertaken across the site proposed for the construction of a dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant and access road. The site of development is located partly within the constraint rings of a megalithic tomb (DG019–014) and a standing stone (DG019–015).
A desk-based assessment undertaken in 2000 concluded that the standing stone was no longer in situ. However, two previously unrecorded standing stones located a short distance across the road to the south-west are likely to be the remains of this monument. A test excavation conducted later in the same year by Ciara MacManus (ADS) revealed no archaeological features or artefacts within the site proposed for construction of the house (Excavations 2000, No. 184, 00E0646). The plan of development was amended several years later which involved relocating the proposed dwelling house a short distance to the north of the site planned initially. The relocation of the proposed dwelling house was therefore subject to a planning condition by Donegal County Council to carry out a further phase of testing. This was carried out on 14 August 2008. Four transecting trenches were excavated, which measured between 25–60m in length. They were excavated across the site of the proposed house, septic tank and driveway. No archaeological features or artefacts of any kind were exposed during testing.
