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2023:903 - Ballyweeaun, Galway

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Galway

Site name: Ballyweeaun

Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA027-011----

Licence number: 23E0664

Author: Leo Morahan

Author/Organisation Address: Roscrea, Moyard, Co. Galway

Site type: Enclosure

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 508355m, N 755690m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 46.488181, -15.817314

A proposed extension and alteration at an existing dwelling together with new access drive is located within the constraint zone for a monument shown as a roughly circular enclosure on 1838 OS map (GA027-011—-). There is no surface trace of the monument today. The Archaeological Inventory for Co. Galway 1987 have classified the site as a ringfort – unclassified.  Ten 2m-wide test trenches were excavated with no evidence for the presence of archaeology


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