2024:797 - Piggot's Street, Loughrea, Galway
County: Galway
Site name: Piggot's Street, Loughrea
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA105-150
Licence number: 24E0570
Author: Fiona Rooney
Author/Organisation Address: c/o Through Time Ltd, Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 562175m, N 716545m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.197998, -8.566095
Archaeological monitoring of the excavations at Piggott’s Street was carried out over 2 days. This involved of the mechanical excavation of fill material and natural sandy clays. The stone threshold of an earlier building was recorded at a depth of 0.5m in the north of the site and may be the building marked on the historic OSi last edition 6-inch map. The stratigraphy encountered throughout the rest of the site was comprised of fill (depth 0.9-1m) overlying the natural sandy clay. No features and/or finds of archaeological significance were encountered during the course of the monitoring of the site excavations.