County: Donegal Site name: Carrowreagh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DG047-012 Licence number: C583;E4485
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: Adjacent to hillfort
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 636642m, N 919818m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.024559, -7.426960
Monitoring of groundworks adjacent to the visitor car park at the Grianan of Aileach (DG047-012 and National Monument Number 140) in County Donegal was carried out on 8 November 2016. The project involved the replacement by the OPW of a field gate and stile with a new gate. The proposed works were located 12m from the southern corner of the visitor car park along an access road, which leads from the car park to the cashel (DG047-012001), which is situated on the summit of the hill. As the gate posts and stile were set in concrete a mini-digger was used in their removal. The excavation for the new bases for the replacement gate posts was carried out by hand. The two pits excavated measured 0.4m square and 0.3-0.5m deep. The excavation revealed modern disturbance associated with the existing stile and field gate, over peat and bedrock. No artefacts were recovered from either pit. Nothing of archaeological significance was in evidence.
4 Lecka Grove, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
