County: Down Site name: Clough
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/09/204
Author: Declan P. Hurl, Amey Consulting Ltd, Rushmere House, 46 Cadogan Park, Belfast, BT9 6HH
Site type: 19th-century garden
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 740790m, N 840205m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.291202, -5.837346
A planning application to construct a care facility off Main Street, Clough, required testing, as the site was located less than 100m to the south of the state care motte and bailey/tower-house complex of Clough Castle (DOW037–060).
The two parallel test-trenches measured 30m x 2m. The only features uncovered, including a path and wall foundations, related to a 19th-century formal garden which had occupied the site; artifacts consisted of ceramics from the same period.
