County: Galway Site name: KILCAHILL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA057–110 Licence number: 06E0328
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 538827m, N 741032m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.415869, -8.920203
Pre-development testing was carried out on 18 and 19 April 2006 at two adjacent sites at Kilcahill townland, Co. Galway. The proposed development was located within the archaeological constraint for a field system. There was no visible surface trace of the field system, the field having been cleared in the 1980s, but an associated cashel was located 35m south-west of the northern development site and immediately west of the southern development site. The proposed developments consisted of the construction of serviced dwellings with septic tanks, proprietary effluent treatment systems, percolation areas and garages/sheds.
The testing consisted of the excavation (by machine) of three trenches on the northern site and four on the southern site. The three trenches on the northern site measured 49.2m, 14.8m and 39.1m long respectively, 0.9–1.4m wide and 0.15–0.8m deep. The four trenches on the southern site measured 30m, 32.9m, 15.1m and 32.5m long respectively, 1.0–1.3m wide and 0.1–0.6m deep.
Below the topsoil were grey plastic boulder clay, orange/brown friable silt loam and bedrock. The testing revealed natural stratigraphy and nothing of archaeological significance.
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