2017:356 - Trewmount Road, Dungannon, Tyrone

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Tyrone Site name: Trewmount Road, Dungannon

Sites and Monuments Record No.: IHR 00950:142 Licence number: AE/17/228

Author: Stephen Gilmore

Site type: Industrial

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 684339m, N 860886m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.489408, -6.698286

Test trenching that was carried out at the site adjacent to the Meadows, Killyman, Co. Tyrone. Twenty-three test trenches totalling 1501m were excavated over 11-12 December 2017 under archaeological supervision. Nothing of an archaeological nature was uncovered other than the line of the Portadown and Dungannon railway, which cut across the southern corner of the site. The Industrial Heritage Record (IHR) notes this as the Enniskillen-Omagh Railway Line (IHR 00950). The cutting can still be seen by the clear drop in level between its former site and the surrounding land, road, etc., however, it has clearly been partly in-filled and landscaped.

Two disused arched railway bridges are situated on the south-west and south-east boundaries of the site, along the Trewmount Road and the small access road to the rectory respectively. These bridges were constructed to allow the railway cutting to pass underneath the existing adjacent roads. The bridge on the Trewmount Road is included in the IHR (00950:142). The IHR simply records it as a bridge that ‘carries the Coalisland-Armagh road across the railway’ and was located in Laghey on a GNR Branch Line. Bridge and railway are first mapped on the 2nd edition OS six-inch map of 1853. A similar bridge on the road to the rectory that bounds the south-eastern edge of the proposed area is not recorded in the IHR.

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