2014:582 - WARRENPOINT: Clonallon Parish Church, 77 Clonallon Road, Down
County: Down
Site name: WARRENPOINT: Clonallon Parish Church, 77 Clonallon Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DOW051:061
Licence number: AE/14/03
Author: Stuart Reilly, Gahan and Long Ltd
Author/Organisation Address: 7-9 Castlereagh Street, Belfast BT5 4NE
Site type: Burial
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 715072m, N 819566m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.112275, -6.240055
An archaeological evaluation was carried out prior to the proposed drainage insertion around the existing Clonallon Parish church, 77 Clonallon Road, Warrenpoint, recorded on the SMR as DOW 051:061.
Monitoring took place of the excavation of the drainage ditch, undertaken by a mechanical digger fitted with a toothless bucket. It revealed the disarticulated human remains of an unknown number of individuals. All the human bones were bagged and following consultation with NIEA:HMU were returned to the church for reburial. The articulated remains of a further three individuals were identified in the ditch; these could not be removed but were not further disturbed by the pipe insertion. They were subsequently covered over after recording.