County: Derry Site name: WATERLOO STREET, DERRY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/09/53
Author: Chris Farrimond, FarrimondMacManus Ltd (Belfast), East Belfast Enterprise, 308 Albertbridge Road, Belfast, BT5 4GX.
Site type: City walls
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 643286m, N 916735m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.996331, -7.323520
Monitoring of controlled demolition and primary ground-reduction works was undertaken during April 2009 in relation to a proposed development site located at Nos 2–4 Waterloo Street, Derry. Demolition works exposed a substantial portion of the Derry city walls (LDY014–033), while monitoring of the excavation of foundation trenches for ring-beam foundations primarily revealed layers associated with the construction of the buildings which most recently occupied the site. Monitoring also revealed a substantial subsoil-cut hole that is likely to represent an unfinished well, c. 1.8m in diameter and 10m deep, below the floor levels of the previously extant buildings.
