2002:0755 - RAHEEN, Galway
County: Galway
Site name: RAHEEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 84:118
Licence number: 02E0246 ext.
Author: Martin Fitzpatrick, Arch. Consultancy Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Ballydavid South, Athenry, Co. Galway
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 549352m, N 728204m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.301703, -8.759845
Monitoring of a proposed development took place at Raheen, Athenry, near the site of a road. The stratigraphy encountered consisted of a thin layer of topsoil overlying a grey, gravelly, natural subsoil, which in turn overlay bedrock. In the south-east of the site a large area of loose stone under topsoil was uncovered, similar to that already noted during pre-development testing (see No. 754, Excavations 2002). The deposit appeared to be the remnants of an excavated ridge of sand/gravel. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.