County: Galway Site name: GALWAY: 4 Shop Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 94:100 Licence number: 98E0409
Author: Dermot Nelis, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 529768m, N 725219m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.272653, -9.052945
Dúchas The Heritage Service requested an archaeological assessment of the proposed development, as the site is within the zone of archaeological potential for Galway City. Neil O'Flanagan undertook a building survey with the production of scaled plans and elevations of any medieval fabric. Intrusive fieldwork took the form of four hand-excavated test-pits, along with the recording of seven previously machine-excavated engineering test-pits in the basement of the building.
Archaeological excavation and recording revealed an 18th/19th-century made ground layer sealing natural clays and sealed by a modern cement layer. One small pit was recorded in the west-facing section of Test-pit C, which lay in the middle of the site, although it failed to reveal any datable material. No further archaeological features or finds were recorded.
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