County: Galway Site name: ATHENRY: Barrack Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0847
Author: Martin Fitzpatrick, Arch. Consultancy Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 550303m, N 727808m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.298239, -8.745508
Pre-development testing was undertaken in compliance with a condition of planning permission. It was concerned with the demolition of an extension to the rear of a dwelling-house and the construction of a single-storey extension to the rear of same.
Two trenches were mechanically excavated. In Trench A (8m by 1m) the removal of sod uncovered a mixed brown layer (0.6m in depth) with moderate stone inclusions. Fragments of red brick and pottery of 20th-century date were recovered from this layer. Underlying this was a grey/yellow boulder clay. In Trench B (7m by 1m) the stratigraphy was similar, with a brown clayey subsoil underlying the surface and overlying the natural boulder clay. No features/deposits of archaeological significance were encountered in either of the trenches.
Ballydavid South, Athenry, Co. Galway
