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2013:319 - PORTAFERRY (Ballyphillip): 1-3 Church Street, Down

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Down

Site name: PORTAFERRY (Ballyphillip): 1-3 Church Street

Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a

Licence number: AE/13/218

Author: Jonathan Barkley, Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: Farset Enterprise Park, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DY

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 759315m, N 850973m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.382431, -5.547294

Test trenching was requested to be undertaken on the site following the demolition of an old pub and prior to the construction of a new building.

Once demolition had taken place it was discovered that the original building sat directly on the underlying bedrock and trenching was neither possible nor required.


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