County: Galway Site name: KILMURVEY (INIS MÓR)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 110:44 Licence number: 96E149ext.
Author: Heather A. King, National Monuments
Site type: Midden
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 481976m, N 710032m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.127755, -9.763553
Following the discovery of a hone, a bronze thimble and a disc quern in soil removed from a small field to the north of the tearooms at Kilmurvey in 1995, two test-trenches were opened in the field in 1996 as a bicycle park was proposed for the area. No archaeological features were uncovered although three substantial deposits of modern midden material were noted (Excavations 1996, 44). Monitoring was undertaken during soil-stripping of the field prior to construction of the bicycle park in 1997. Further midden material was uncovered but it too was of modern derivation.
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