2002:0706 - ABBEYROW, Athenry, Galway

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Galway Site name: ABBEYROW, Athenry

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 84:1 Licence number: 02E1573

Author: Fiona Rooney, Arch. Consultancy Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 550346m, N 727778m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.297974, -8.744858

Pre-development testing took place before the construction of two dwelling-houses and associated services at Abbeyrow, Athenry, on a site occupied by a 19th-century national school. Monitoring of the demolition of the school building revealed no features of archaeological significance. Five trenches were mechanically excavated. The stratigraphy consisted of demolition rubble overlying a natural gravel layer that extended for a depth of 0.8–1m, suggesting that the schoolhouse had been built directly on a natural gravel deposit. No artefacts or features of archaeological significance were encountered.

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