County: Galway Site name: TULRUSH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A024/4.22
Author: John Tierney, Eachtra Archaeological Projects, Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Kinsale Road, Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 574031m, N 735576m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.369740, -8.390210
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).
The aim of testing was to locate the anomalies identified in the geophysical survey (ArchaeoPhysica 2004) and to establish their nature, extent and significance. In the survey, furrows and one ditch were identified.
Eight test-trenches were excavated in Fields 200 and 201. One modern ditch, orientated north-west/south-east, was identified just below the brow of the hill in Trench 1, Field 201; this was half-sectioned and was interpreted as a field boundary or drainage ditch. It measured 0.6m in width and 0.4m in depth. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted in any of the trenches in Field 201. However, no archaeological features of any kind were identified in the trenches in Field 200.
The features identified in the geophysical survey are not archaeological and therefore require no further work.
Reference
ArchaeoPhysica 2004 N6 Galway to East Ballinasloe geophysical survey report. Unpublished report lodged with the DoEHLG.
