1998:235 - BALLYNABUCKY, Galway
County: Galway
Site name: BALLYNABUCKY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 98E0570
Author: Billy Quinn, for Archaeological Services Unit Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: 1c The Market, Ennis, Co. Clare
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 543528m, N 717490m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.204845, -8.845294
This work was undertaken on 7 December 1998. The proposed development involved the construction of a single serviced dwelling in the townland of Ballynabucky, Kilcolgan, Co. Galway. The site is in close proximity to a ringfort (SMR 103:18). Testing involved the mechanical excavation of four trenches, three on the site of the proposed dwelling-house and one on the proposed percolation area.
The trenches were excavated down to natural. All four had a similar stratigraphy, and all were archaeologically sterile. On the evidence of the trenches it appears that the proposed development posed no threat to the immediate archaeological environment.