2024:139 - CLONMANY, COOLE UPPER/LOWER, WOODQUARTER, CARMONEY (CRANFORD TRUNCK MAIN), Donegal

The Coole Upper to Cranford Trunk Main scheme in Co. Donegal forms part of a larger nationwide Water Network Programme that is being undertaken by Uisce Éireann. The scheme involved the installation of c.1,988m of rehabilitated water mains along the existing roads. The groundworks for the scheme consisted of a continuous open-cut trenching located along road L12123 conjoined with the R245 in Cool Upper, Cool Lower, Woodquarter and Carmoney townlands, County Donegal.
The monitoring followed a high-level Cultural Heritage Screening Assessment undertaken for the scheme by Archaeological Management Solutions. The scheme didn’t impact any Recorded Monuments or sites listed on the Sites and Monuments Record. Archaeological monitoring was recommended in the vicinity of cultural heritage (CH) sites: at the location of the former village Stream’s Town East (CH04) for a total of 165m and the location of former village Mid Town or Termony Hunter (CH07) for a total of 120m; and in the vicinity of the watercourse (CH01) and the kiln (site-of; CH06) and 20m either side due to potential for archaeological remains to be present at these locations.
Monitoring was carried out intermittently between 6 March 2024 and 13 May 2024. The installation method used was open-cut trenching. Excavation of sections of a continuous open-cut trench totalling c.365m were monitored. No potential archaeological objects, features or deposits were found during the monitoring of the schemes route. The only feature found was a stone culvert measuring 1.3m in width by 0.7m in height revealed at the location of the former village of Stream’s Town East (CH04). It could be dated to the nineteenth century as the village is depicted on the first-edition six-inch Ordnance Survey map (1836) and by 1903 a single dwelling only is depicted on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map (1904) in this area.

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