2019:226 - Cool Upper, Woodquarter, Cratlagh and Milford, Donegal

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Donegal Site name: Cool Upper, Woodquarter, Cratlagh and Milford

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 19E0380

Author: Martin McGonigle

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 618174m, N 927939m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.098537, -7.715255

Monitoring associated with the Letterkenny Regional Water Supply Scheme - Contract 3, in County Donegal was undertaken at the site of the Water Supply Improvements – Cranford to Milford Section. Full-time monitoring was undertaken at Cool Upper (Cranford environs between local roads L12123 and L1212) and intermittent monitoring was undertaken on non-National Primary roads (including the L1212, R245 and Cooper’s Road, Milford), over 10 non-consecutive days in July to September 2019.

Topsoil/ overburden was stripped using a 360-degree mechanical excavator fitted with a toothless bucket. Nothing of archaeological significance was identified during the works.

John Cronin & Associates, Burnside, Saint Oran's Road, Buncrana, County Donegal