County: Galway Site name: BRACKERNAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A024/4.17
Author: Julianna O’Donoghue, Eachtra Archaeological Projects, Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Kinsale Road, Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 583824m, N 729992m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.319953, -8.242777
The assessment, including test excavation, was carried out before the construction of the proposed N6 Galway–Ballinasloe road scheme. The proposed scheme will be a dual carriageway, 56km in length, extending from the east side of Galway city, at Doughiska, to the east side of Ballinasloe, at Beagh Brabazon, in Co. Roscommon. The assessment was undertaken for Galway County Council and the National Roads Authority and forms part of a wider assessment of c. 15km of the proposed N6 dual carriageway (Contract 4).
The aim of testing was to locate the possible former field boundary identified as an anomaly in the geophysical survey (ArchaeoPhysica 2004) and to establish its nature, extent and significance. Six trenches were excavated. One field drain, orientated east–west, was uncovered during test-trenching in the south-east corner of the field in Trench 3. This field drain does not correspond with the anomaly identified during the geophysical survey, as it is much further south. The feature identified in the geophysical survey was not recorded during centre-line testing. The anomaly may possibly have represented non-archaeological material within the topsoil. No archaeological features or artefacts were uncovered.
Reference
ArchaeoPhysica 2004 N6 Galway to East Ballinasloe geophysical survey report. Unpublished report lodged with the DoEHLG.
