County: Galway Site name: Fiddaun
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E1067
Author: Fran Wilkinson, Tempus Archaeology, Cregg, Craughwell, Co. Galway.
Site type: Linear feature
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 542272m, N 744554m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.447900, -8.869030
Test-trenching was carried out in advance of development in the townland of Fiddaun, Gort, Co. Galway. The development lies within the zone of potential for a ringfort and souterrain (GA128–047(01, 02)). Nine trenches were dug. The trenches, which varied in length from 6 to 25m, were dug to the level of the parent material. A linear feature was discovered in Trenches 5 and 9. This feature, which was oriented east–west, was about 10m in length and 2m in maximum width. The antiquity of this feature is unknown.
