County: Down Site name: Ballymagaraghan (Feney Road, Moira)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/19/117
Author: Christopher J. Farrimond, FarrimondMacManus Ltd (Derry), 150 Elmvale, Culmore, Derry BT48 8SL.
Site type: No archaeological significance.
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 715358m, N 859153m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.467743, -6.220427
Planning Permission has been granted for a proposed development site at lands at and opposite 35 Feney Road, Moira, Co. Down, to provide for the construction of an off-site replacement dwelling with retention of existing dwelling for residential storage (Planning Ref: LA05/2017/0758/0 & LA05/2019/0043/RM).
Pre-development archaeological evaluation works were undertaken on 8th August 2019 by FarrimondMacManus Ltd under archaeological Licence No. AE/19/117 throughout the proposed development area on behalf of Ruairi & Christine Quinn.
Four (4no.) trenches, totaling approximately 265 linear metres of trenching, were excavated over a period of a single day during on-site works, within an area of c.0.414 hectares, measuring approximately 85m (east-west) x 55m.
On-site evaluation works revealed glacial subsoil throughout each of the trenches and no archaeological features, remains or deposits were identified during the evaluation works.
Christopher J. Farrimond, FarrimondMacManus Ltd (Derry), 150 Elmvale, Culmore, Derry BT48 8SL.
