2003:2221 - KILLEENHUGH, Galway
County: Galway
Site name: KILLEENHUGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA113-131
Licence number: 03E0664
Author: Finn Delaney, Dominic Delany & Associates
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 3, Howley Court, Oranmore, Co. Galway
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 541725m, N 712278m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.157807, -8.871344
Testing was carried out at a proposed development site in Killeenhugh, Co. Galway, on 10 May 2003. The proposed development was located within the area of archaeological restraint around a ringfort and souterrain.
Five trenches were excavated across the site. The soil profile consisted of a sod layer which overlay silty clay under which was white to cream-coloured silty sand with some rounded stones. Nothing of any archaeological significance was noted in any of the trenches.