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.
Ballydavid South, Athenry, Co. Galway