County: Donegal Site name: Fegart
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 18E0235
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 644004m, N 949948m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.294637, -7.307158
Pre-development testing at a site at Fegart townland in the Isle of Doagh on the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, took place on 11 May 2018. The proposed eco-tourism development consisted of a communal facility building to serve six shepherds' huts holiday accommodation, car parking, access road, septic tank and reed beds. The testing was a condition of planning and was necessary due to the scale of the proposed development. There were no recorded monuments within or in the immediate vicinity of the proposed development site, which was located in overgrown pasture along the western shore of Trawbreaga Bay.
Five test trenches were excavated by machine. The trenches measured 18.5m, 29.5m, 19.6m, 29.8m and 39.7m long respectively, 1.8-2m wide and 0.05-0.6m deep. Below the topsoil was natural subsoils and bedrock. The topsoil contained a small number of modern pottery sherds.
Nothing of archaeological significance was in evidence.
4 Lecka Grove, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, County Mayo
