2009:213 - CONWAL CHURCH, LETTERKENNY, Donegal

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Donegal Site name: CONWAL CHURCH, LETTERKENNY

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0313

Author: Chris Farrimond, FarrimondMacManus Ltd (Belfast), East Belfast Enterprise, 308 Albertbridge Road, Belfast, BT5 4GX.

Site type: Monitoring

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 616787m, N 911475m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.950675, -7.737946

Monitoring of groundworks undertaken during August 2009 relates to a proposed development site at Conwal Parish Church, Church Lane, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. No archaeological features or deposits were identified during monitoring works at the site.
However, a small quantity of disarticulated human remains was recovered during removal of overlying topsoil within grave plot numbers 339 and 340 in the north-west corner of the site.