County: Tyrone Site name: St columbkille’s primary school, carrickmore
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/10/15
Author: David Kilner, Archaeological Development Services Ltd, Channel Wharf, 21 Old Channel Road, Belfast, BT3 9DE.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 661714m, N 872825m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.599928, -7.044916
The proposed development is located at St Columbkille’s primary school in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, and relates to an area measuring approximately 200m west to east by 140m at its widest point. The site is currently occupied by a single-storey primary school, nursery and play area, with the east extent of the proposed development currently a pasture field. It is proposed that these existing features be demolished and replaced by a new school building with parking facilities and play areas.
There are several archaeological sites within the immediate vicinity of the proposed development including an ecclesiastical site (TY036–003) which is known to date to the medieval period, though may date back to the Early Christian period, and a megalithic tomb (TYR036–044).
Testing was carried out on 1–2 February 2010 and comprised a series of mechanically excavated trenches within the pasture field. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered within these trenches; the field had seen some previous disturbance in the form of drainage and agricultural ditches.
