County: Down Site name: Magheramurphy
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DOW056–026 Licence number: AE/10/146E
Author: Brian Sloan, 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 723646m, N 829033m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.195308, -6.105116
Five trenches (each measuring roughly 20m in length by 2m in width) were mechanically excavated at this site in advance of development. The proposed development is in the historic core of Kilkeel town, as well as being in the vicinity of a medieval ecclesiastical foundation. The five trenches were excavated to the surface of the natural subsoil, with nothing of archaeological significance being noted in any of the trenches.
