County: Galway Site name: LOUGHREA: Barrack Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA105–150 Licence number: 06E0333
Author: Dominic Delany, Dominic Delany & Associates
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 562070m, N 716459m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.197226, -8.567647
Pre-development testing was carried out on the site of a proposed extension to a commercial property at Barrack Street, Loughrea, Co. Galway, on 24 April 2006. The site is located in the heart of the historic town. A mini-digger fitted with a grading bucket was deployed to excavate a single test-trench on the footprint of the proposed extension.
A garden soil deposit, 0.45m in thickness, directly overlay the boulder clay in the south part of the trench. To the north a large irregular pit extended 1.3m to the base of the trench. The pit fill was similar to the overlying garden soil deposit and contained modern ceramics and clay-pipe fragments. No archaeological material was uncovered.
Unit 3, Howley Court, Oranmore, Co. Galway
