2015:607 - Goland, Meencrumlin & Meencaragagh, Donegal

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Donegal Site name: Goland, Meencrumlin & Meencaragagh

Sites and Monuments Record No.: none Licence number: 15E0222

Author: Angela Wallace, Atlantic Archaeology

Site type: none

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 609455m, N 891846m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.774501, -7.853048

Goland, Meencrumlin and Meencaragagh
Area 2/2 E 609455, N 891846 to E 891846, N 892016 (ITM Ref)
Area 2/3 E 609484, N891985 to E 609736, N892255 (ITM Ref)

Archaeological testing was carried out in Area 2/3 and monitoring in Area 2/2 on the N15 Blackburn Bridge Road Realignment Scheme, Co. Donegal in the townlands of Goland, Meencrumlin and Meencaragagh. This work was carried out during the Construction phase of the contract. The N15 Blackburn Bridge Road Realignment involves the improvement of approx. 2.4km of the N15 from the speed limits south of Ballybofey to McGroary’s Brae in the townland of Meencrumlin in Co. Donegal. No archaeological finds, features or deposits were uncovered during the course of monitoring in Area 2/2 and testing in Area 2/3. There is no predicted impact to the archaeological resource within these areas and no further archaeological mitigation was recommended.

Pier Road, Enniscrone, Co. Sligo