County: Antrim Site name: JOYMOUNT, CARRICKFERGUS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/09/85
Author: Martin Keery, Gahan & Long Ltd, 7–9 Castlereagh Street, Belfast, BT5 4NE.
Site type: Post-medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 741488m, N 887557m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.716164, -5.803941
It is proposed to insert a new storm sewer and holding tank at Joymount, Carrickfergus. During the monitoring of the groundworks for this project a limited amount of archaeology was uncovered during the insertion of the new storm sewer, including a pit in the side of the holding tank excavation and an earlier stone-walled channel. No datable artefacts were retrieved from the pit or from the stone wall, but it is highly probable that the latter dates from the 19th/early 20th century, as the Sullatober Water was most likely channelled during the construction of the nearby railway embankment and due to the close proximity of IHR 5636, a cornmill and flax-spinning site. Aside from these features, nothing of archaeological significance was found during this project.
