County: Galway Site name: GALWAY: Barrack Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0021
Author: Richard Crumlish, Archaeological Services Unit Ltd.
Site type: Town defences, House - 16th/17th century, Fortification and Barracks
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 530006m, N 725600m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.276103, -9.049463
The full excavation of this site, within and adjacent to the city wall in Galway, which began in January 1998, continued with a further season's work in the summer of 1999. The site contained the remains of a late 16th/early 17th-century house, a 17th-century citadel and an 18th-century military barracks.
The excavation report is ongoing, and it is hoped to include it in the forthcoming Galway Excavations Project publication.
Purcell House, Oranmore, Co. Galway
