County: Galway Site name: ORANHILL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA095-103001 Licence number: 04E0074
Author: Dominic Delany, Dominic Delany & Associates
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 537777m, N 723205m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.255556, -8.932493
Test excavation was carried out on the site of a proposed housing development at Oranhill on 7–8 January 2004. The development site is located c. 40m north-east of a large ringfort/souterrain monument, named 'Oran Fort' on OS maps. A tracked excavator fitted with a wide toothless bucket was retained to open five trenches (60–130m long) on the footprint of the proposed development. The stratigraphy was uniform across the tested area, with mid-brown silty clay topsoil, averaging 0.4m in thickness, overlying patches of orange clay subsoil and grey silty/sandy clay natural. No archaeological material was discovered during testing.
Unit 3, Howley Court, Oranmore, Co. Galway
