2018:027 - CASTLE COOLE, National Trust - Optic cable, Fermanagh

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Fermanagh

Site name: CASTLE COOLE, National Trust - Optic cable

Sites and Monuments Record No.: FER 211:082

Licence number: AE/18/023

Author: Stuart Alexander, Northern Archaeological Consultancy

Author/Organisation Address: 638 Springfield Road, Belfast

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 625332m, N 843292m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.337699, -7.610469

The works at Castle Coole required the archaeologically monitored excavation of a single continuous trench 0.3m wide by 1.1km through the estate grounds. This narrow line of invasive works facilitated a 4-inch diameter pipe for a BT fibre-optic cable running from the Twin gate lodges to the main Castle Coole house. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered during the course of the works. The excavation was carried out under Scheduled Monument Consent due to the proximity of the 18th-century Formal Garden of Castle Coole (FER 211:082).