County: Down Site name: 2a Loughadian Road, Poyntzpass
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/08/189
Author: Nick Beer, 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 606190m, N 839504m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.304255, -7.904891
An archaeological evaluation was carried out at a site c. 30m south of 2 Loughadian Road, Poyntzpass, Co. Down, as part of a planning application for a new dwelling. The application site was situated c. 60m north-east of the site of a 17th-century tower-house (DOW033–034), which has no standing remains. The evaluation consisted of three mechanically excavated test-trenches, 23m, 14m and 11m long by 2m wide. No deposits of archaeological significance were uncovered in the test-trenches.
