2003:2196 - CLOONKEA, Galway
County: Galway
Site name: CLOONKEA
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA101-006
Licence number: 03E1346
Author: Anne Carey
Author/Organisation Address: 80 Portacarron, Ballymoneen Road, Galway
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 594961m, N 719036m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.221706, -8.075456
Monitoring of excavations associated with the installation of a service trench was undertaken at Brackloon Castle on 25 August 2003, in advance of a planned restoration of the 16th-century tower-house. The main service trench measured 80m north–south and an ancillary trench measured 26m east–west. A spread of post-medieval pottery was recovered from previously ploughed topsoil in the main service trench, 5m south of the castle. No features of archaeological interest were discovered.