2005:576 - CLOGHAREVAUN (Site 2.20), Galway
County: Galway
Site name: CLOGHAREVAUN (Site 2.20)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: A024/19
Author: Tom Janes, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 1, IDA Industrial Estate, Wallingstown, Little Island, Co. Cork
Site type: Burnt mound and Field system
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 557559m, N 724129m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.265806, -8.636170
This site had been highlighted as an area of high archaeological potential for a number of reasons. A number of topographic features were visible in the study area, which comprised a series of probable cultivation ridges, several linear embankments and a possible diverted river course. The site was also close to Clogharevaun Castle and a modern bridge, which may indicate the presence of an earlier river crossing in the area. A geophysical survey of the site identified a number of features interpreted as ditch fills, old field boundaries and possible trackways.
Test-trenching of the specified area identified two previously unknown sites comprising a burnt mound and a possible medieval field system.
The work was commissioned by Galway County Council National Roads Design Office and sponsored by the National Roads Authority.