County: Donegal Site name: ARDARA, DRUMBARAN (ARDADA ED), WOODHILL (ARDARA ED)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 19E0645
Author: Tamlyn McHugh
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 573780m, N 890417m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.761067, -8.407383
Testing took place on October 16 2019 in advance of the proposed construction of a distillery including main distillery building, one storage shed, landscape features such as ponds, access road and car parking facilities, within a site comprising 4.041ha (9.985 acres). Eight linear test trenches were mechanically excavated using a graded bucket 1.9m wide across the site, totalling 415.22m in length. All trenches were excavated to the top of archaeological material or boulder clay and were excavated at 20m intervals running north-south. The stratigraphy was consistent throughout with the underlying substrate consisting of a moderately compacted gravel material with moderate sand inclusions. The site has been bulldozed in recent years as part of land reclamation. No archaeological material was noted during trenching.
Cooldrumman Upper, Carney, Co. Sligo
