County: Galway Site name: CARRA
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA098-051 Licence number: 05E0108
Author: Margaret McCarthy, Archaeological Services Unit
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 566829m, N 723755m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.263106, -8.497196
Testing was carried out at Carra townland in east Galway as part of a series of site investigations prior to construction work on the New Inn to Tynagh gas pipeline connection. The test-trench was placed in the vicinity of a ring-barrow, which appeared as a crop mark on an aerial photograph and is visible in low grass as a very faint regular raised area of ground. The single trench measuring 40m in length was set out extending from the existing field boundary in the north-west corner of the field in a south-easterly direction. It was placed along the line of the pipeline trench and was located 50m from the centre of the ring-barrow. The topsoil consisted of a mid-brown sandy silt and it reached its deepest (0.42m) at the north-western end of the trench, where the ground sloped sharply towards the ditch of the field boundary. The depth of topsoil decreased towards the other end of the trench and measured on average 0.32m. The surface beneath the topsoil was made up of a light-brown firm clay with very occasional small stones. Excavation revealed an undisturbed soil profile and nothing of archaeological significance was present.
University College Cork
