County: Galway Site name: MOYCULLEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0513
Author: Ruth Elliott, for Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 522971m, N 733082m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.342360, -9.156729
Test-trenching and subsequent monitoring were carried out in advance of a residential development in the townland of Moycullen from 26 to 28 July 2000. The site was located north-east of Moycullen town and adjacent to a medieval church and graveyard (SMR 68:42). The church ruins were 16m x 6.6m and orientated east–west. They were surrounded by a D-shaped graveyard bounded by a modern stone wall. The enclosing wall was west of the residential site and 13m from the planned structure, so there was a strong possibility of uncovering related medieval archaeology. However, during test-trenching only occasional post-medieval ceramics and the remains of a field wall were revealed. Subsequent soil-stripping did not uncover any archaeological material.
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