County: Galway Site name: KNOCKNACARRAGH/RAHOON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 96E0018 and 97E0060
Author: Anne Connolly, Archaeological Services Unit Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 525793m, N 724709m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.267528, -9.112398
Six areas were archaeologically monitored in the course of a fifteen-month period as part of the Knocknacarragh Main Drainage Scheme. In those areas where the trenching was monitored (Areas 1–3), much, and in most cases total, disturbance was a feature of the upper stratigraphy, with tarmac, hard-core and shallow layers of mixed fill of modern nature representing recent activity. Natural sandy subsoils underlay these layers and bedrock occurred directly below this, sometimes at a very shallow depth and sometimes fluctuating to c. 2m below current ground level.
In Areas 4, 5 (under licence 96E0018) and 6 (97E0060), the previously undisturbed green areas, topsoil-stripping revealed a shallow, heavily humic layer overlying stones and bedrock. No archaeological features or deposits came to light in any of the areas monitored.
Purcell House, Oranmore, Co. Galway
