2001:484 - ATHENRY, Galway

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Galway

Site name: ATHENRY

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 01E0462

Author: Markus Casey, for Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: 15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 549998m, N 728490m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.304338, -8.750189

Test excavations on the site of a reservoir in a field of pasture and outcropping rock close to the remains of a tower-house uncovered a thin layer of topsoil directly on top of the underlying limestone bedrock. Nothing of archaeological value was found.