County: Mayo Site name: SHRULE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 122A:16 Licence number: 00E0564
Author: Fiona Rooney, Arch. Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 528155m, N 752404m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.516700, -9.083300
The proposed development involving the construction of a dwelling-house was located within a large earthwork that surrounds the town of Shrule. This may have been associated with the 16th-century castle in Shrule town or with the earlier church built in the 13th century. It was recommended that pre-development testing in the form of trial-trenches be carried out.
Four trenches were excavated, revealing a layer of subsoil over natural gravel. The stratigraphy revealed indicated no evidence of features/deposits or artefacts of archaeological significance.
Ballydavid South, Athenry, Co. Galway
