County: Galway Site name: ARDAMULLIVAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0770
Author: Fiona Rooney, Arch. Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: Castle - tower house
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 544329m, N 695663m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.008782, -8.829527
Monitoring of trenches was undertaken at Ardamullivan tower-house, which is presently being restored by Dúchas. This project involved the monitoring of the mechanical excavation of a narrow trench to facilitate the laying of cables in the vicinity of the tower-house. Closer to the tower-house, two trenches were excavated under an existing stone wall and to within a distance of c. 10m from the north-east corner of the tower-house. The stratigraphy encountered throughout consisted of topsoil overlying an orange/brown clayey subsoil. In the trenches excavated closer to the tower-house, rock was located at a depth of c. 0.35m, indicating that the building was constructed on top of a stone ridge. No artefacts or features of archaeological significance were uncovered in the course of monitoring.
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