County: Donegal Site name: Carrowmore
Sites and Monuments Record No.: None Licence number: 17E0352
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: 19th-century graveyard
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 646841m, N 950074m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.295507, -7.262473
Monitoring of groundworks at a development at Cloncha (Church of Ireland) Parish Church in Malin Town, Co. Donegal, took place on 21 August 2017. The development consisted of the construction of a disabled toilet to the rear of the vestry of the existing church, connection to the public sewer and associated site works. The monitoring was a condition of planning permission granted by Donegal County Council.
The church, which is a Protected Structure, is located on the north-west side of the village green in Malin Town and is dated to 1827 with alterations carried out in 1876. The surrounding graveyard contains 19th- and 20th-century burials. There were no recorded monuments in the vicinity of the development site.
The groundworks consisted of strip foundations for the disabled toilet, a trench for the connection to the public sewer and a trench for a connection to the public water supply. The trench excavated for the connection to the public sewer ran from the new building through the graveyard along the line of a disused path which was no longer visible but which was marked on the 2nd edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheet of 1903. The trench for the connection to the public water supply ran from the new building through the gravelled driveway of the church. The stratigraphy uncovered during the groundworks was topsoil and pea-gravel on the surface, above fill and natural subsoils. The remains of the disused path were visible in the trench excavated for the connection to the public sewer. Only modern artefacts were recovered. Nothing uncovered pre-dated the church. Nothing of archaeological significance was in evidence.
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