2002:0728 - GALWAY: 26, 28 and 32 Abbeygate Street Upper, Galway
County: Galway
Site name: GALWAY: 26, 28 and 32 Abbeygate Street Upper
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 01E1032 ext.
Author: Linzi Simpson, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 529765m, N 725229m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.272739, -9.052979
This sites lies to the rear of a late medieval building (No. 32) that forms part of a larger site originally excavated by John Ó Néill (No. 727, Excavations 2002). The testing involved digging a test-trench to establish the depth of rubble deposits in a proposed basement area (9m square). The assessment established the presence of a modern rubble deposit overlying boulder clay, which had been sealed by a modern concrete floor. This area was subsequently monitored, but nothing of archaeological significance was found.