County: Galway Site name: BALLINASLOE REGIONAL WATER SUPPLY SCHEME
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0834
Author: Billy Quinn, ASU Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 584882m, N 730969m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.328762, -8.226947
Monitoring of the Ballinasloe Regional Water Supply Scheme involved the installation of a pipeline 13km in length running from a new reservoir at Redmount Hill to the south-east of Laurancetown to Stapletons Cross south of Ballinasloe. The trench for the pipeline measured on average 0.5–1.5m wide by 1.5–2m deep, and was located entirely along the line of the existing road.
Further work was carried out on the site of the reservoir at Redmount Hill, a water-tower at Sheepwalk and at pumping stations at Laurancetown and Ballinure. Monitoring of both the trenching and topsoil-stripping throughout the course of the scheme revealed nothing of archaeological significance.
Purcell House, Oranmore, Co. Galway
