County: Galway Site name: POLLBOY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A024/4.20
Author: Julianna O’Donoghue, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 585619m, N 729667m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.317084, -8.215811
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 archaeological assessment of c. 15km of the proposed N6 dual carriageway (Contract 4).
Thirty-four test-trenches were excavated in six fields. In the geophysical survey (ArchaeoPhysica 2004) cultivation furrows in Field 194 and a scatter of debris due either to the presence of buried archaeology or boulders in Field 197 were detected. Neither of these features was identified during the excavation of test-trenches. No features or artefacts of archaeological significance were uncovered in any of the trenches excavated.
Reference
ArchaeoPhysica 2004 N6 Galway to East Ballinasloe geophysical survey report. Unpublished report lodged with the DoEHLG.
Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Kinsale Road, Cork
