2009:201 - BALLYLIFFIN, Donegal

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Donegal Site name: BALLYLIFFIN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0384

Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 638858m, N 948230m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.279641, -7.388403

Testing was undertaken in advance of the construction of a single dwelling at the site in August 2009. The site is situated adjacent the north-western extent of the constraints area established for a clachan (DG010–003), marked on the OS maps as Magherard. A total of fourteen test-trenches were excavated by machine and nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered.