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2022:852 - MENLOUGH, Galway

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Galway

Site name: MENLOUGH

Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA0103-117001-/002

Licence number: 22E0453 22R01213

Author: Fiona Rooney, c/o Through Time Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: Old Church Street, Athenry, Co. Galway

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 528962m, N 728454m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.301609, -9.065751

The archaeological test trenching recorded no features and/or finds during the course of the excavations. The occasional fragment of 20th-century pottery was retrieved. The stratigraphy encountered was comprised of the sod overlying the silty sand natural in the eastern half of the site and sod overlying natural bedrock and silty sand, in the western part of the site.

Editor’s note: this report was formerly labelled “Adjacent to megalithic tomb”.


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