2009:212 - CORPORATION, MAIN STREET, KILLYBEGS, Donegal

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Donegal Site name: CORPORATION, MAIN STREET, KILLYBEGS

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0249

Author: Martin McGonigle, John Cronin & Associates, 28 Upper Main Street, Buncrana, Co. Donegal.

Site type: Monitoring

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 571593m, N 876611m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.636907, -8.440001

A monitoring programme was conducted between June and September 2009 as part of the Environmental Improvement Scheme (Phase 2) in the townland of Corporation, Main Street, Killybegs, Co. Donegal.
A small number of subsurface finds dating
generally to the 19th and 20th centuries were observed during the excavation of the service trenches for the development. Among the most interesting finds were a possible whetstone and butchered animal bone; these may date to any period, but were found in association with modern ceramics and window glass. The flint finds were unworked.
Flint nodules are sometimes washed up on Donegal beaches. Stone culverts observed during the trench excavation are thought to date to the 19th century.
The subsurface of Killybegs Main Street has
undergone previous disturbance as evidenced by the mixed-up strata observed in the trenches. No undisturbed
archaeological features, deposits or
layers were identified in any of the trenches.