County: Galway Site name: KILLUNEY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA017–119 Licence number: 06E0628
Author: Dominic Delany, Dominic Delany & Associates
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 552124m, N 762893m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.613686, -8.723536
Pre-development testing was carried out on the site of a proposed dwelling house at Killuney, Co. Galway, on 7 July 2006. The site is located adjacent to a poorly preserved earthwork, which is cut east–west by the public road. According to local information, small wickerwork coffins and bones were uncovered when the road was cut through the hill. An excavator fitted with a wide grading bucket was deployed to open three test-trenches on the footprint of the proposed development. The topsoil varied from 0.25 to 0.45m in thickness and overlay fine sandy subsoil. No archaeological material was uncovered.
Unit 3, Howley Court, Oranmore, Co. Galway
