2024:547 - Boughill, Killevan, Newbliss, Monaghan

The site is located in proximity to two Recorded Monuments:

MO012-042---- : Ringfort - rath: BOUGHILL (Proximity to site: c. 400m)

MO012-043---- : Ringfort - rath: BOUGHILL (Proximity to site: c. 200m)

There are numerous Rath/ringforts and other antiquities in the area and also the following:

MO012-049---- : Standing stone : KILLYGORMAN

MO012-048---- : Megalithic tomb - court tomb : KILLYGORMAN

An Archaeological Assessment including Test Trenching was required in advance of the construction of a Poultry Rearing facility.

Eight test trenches, totalling 360m x 2m, were excavated by machine to the top of the subsoil. The two long trenches which were 125m long, ran north-south and were partly located in two different fields with a hedgerow between. The general depth of the trenches was 0.3m, and the profile consisted of 0.2m of sod and mid-brown clayey subsoil, which came down onto archaeologically sterile red/brown or grey/white clayey silt with stones in the northern enclosure, and  red/brown or grey/white sandy silt in the southern enclosure.

Apart from a linear feature at the northern end of Trench 1, which had a U-shaped profile 0.8m wide at the top and 0.6m deep, ran for c.40m and had a fill of stones with no dateable material apart from a fragment of brick, some plastic pieces and the remains of a wooden field fence, no anomalies were disclosed by the Test Trenches.