County: Galway Site name: RAHOON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 93E0078
Author: Martin Fitzpatrick
Site type: Designed landscape feature
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 526966m, N 725029m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.270565, -9.094894
The trial trenching and watching brief at Rahoon took place on 27th May 1993.
On the east shoulder of a ridge running north-west/south-east, the monument consisted of a poorly preserved triangular-shaped enclosure, delimited by boulders averaging 0.9m in height. A total of two trenches were dug mechanically, dissecting the enclosure. The first running north-west/south-east through the middle of the site, the second running perpendicular to the first in a north-east/south-west direction. Apart from the excavation of the two trenches, the digger also removed the boulders delimiting the site, which proved to be of a single course.
The two trenches revealed no archaeological features or deposits, nor was there any indication of on-site activity. The site is of no archaeological importance and may have been, as local history suggests, the work of a local landlord.
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