County: Down Site name: 25 Kilmood Church Road, Killinchy
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DOW016–040 Licence number: AE/10/153
Author: Ruairí Ó Baoill, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 746881m, N 862693m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.491395, -5.732740
Monitoring of ground reduction took place at a proposed extension to No. 25 Kilmood Church Road, Killinchy, Newtownards, Co. Down, on 13–15 September 2010. The house is in close proximity to the 19th-century St Mary’s Church, which is thought to occupy the site of an earlier ecclesiastical foundation. No archaeological strata, features, artefacts or masonry were observed during the lowering of ground levels for the extension to the existing dwelling and the digging of the foundations for the same. All the strata revealed seemed to be of very recent date and included layers of stones, sand, hardcore and uncut (quarry?) stone with modern finds, all sitting directly on subsoil (creamy yellow/brown clay). It seems very likely that the disturbance took place when No. 25 Kilmood Church Road and the adjacent house were constructed approximately ten years ago. All in situ stratigraphy appears to have been removed in the area of the extension at that time and replaced, for the new back garden, with redeposited material.
