2008:358 - POYNTZPASS: 2a Loughadian Road, Down

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Down

Site name: POYNTZPASS: 2a Loughadian Road

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: AE/08/189

Author: Nick Beer, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork

Author/Organisation Address: School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 706190m, N 839504m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.293262, -6.368802

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.