2023:790 - St Columba’s Church and Graveyard, Straid, Donegal
County: Donegal
Site name: St Columba’s Church and Graveyard, Straid
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DG010-011----, DG010-011001-, DG010-011002-
Licence number: E005456
Author: Martin McGonigle
Site type: Church and graveyard
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
ITM: E 636269m, N 946595m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.265145, -7.429370
Archaeological monitoring for repair works to a collapsed section of the graveyard boundary wall of St Columba’s Church and Graveyard site at Straid, Clonmany, County Donegal was undertaken in October 2023. The works did not involve any excavations or the importation of new stone. The reconstruction of the collapsed section of walling was done in a manner in keeping with the adjacent extant sections of wall. No archaeological artefacts were identified in the collapsed section of wall and no archaeological deposits were disturbed during the works.