2024:538 - Faugher, Portnablagh, Letterkenny, Donegal
County: Donegal
Site name: Faugher, Portnablagh, Letterkenny
Sites and Monuments Record No.: DG016-025----
Licence number: 24E1037
Author: Seán Shanahan & Graeme Laidlaw; Shanarc Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Bullaun stone; no archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 605129m, N 936040m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 55.171624, -7.919494
Archaeological test-excavations were conducted in relation to the proposed construction of a dwelling house at Faugher, Portnablagh, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal.
The wider proposed development site is the recorded current location of a bullaun stone (DG016-025---), and the associated Zone of Notification covers the majority of the site.
The test-excavation was carried out on 14 October 2024. Testing comprised the excavation of three trenches measuring 15m in length, 1.6m in width, with a maximum depth of 0.6m.
The sod layer measured 0.1m in depth, overlying a topsoil layer c. 0.5m in depth which comprised a dark brown, soft compacted clayey-silt with a moderate amount of small sized sub-angular stones. The natural subsoil layer comprised a compact orange-brown clay with a frequent amount of white shale-like material and a frequent amount of red brown slate stone.
No archaeological finds features or deposits were identified during testing.