2007:603 - Corraneena, Galway

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Galway Site name: Corraneena

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E1226

Author: Rory Sherlock, 73 Churchfields, Lower Salthill, Galway.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 571819m, N 730692m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.325740, -8.423005

Four test-trenches were excavated on the site of a planned house, domestic garage and associated services on the outskirts of the village of Kilconnell, near a friary, GA086–001. The stratigraphy encountered consisted of a mid-brown silty topsoil overlying a pale orange/brown silty subsoil, which had some small limestone boulders within it. No finds or features of archaeological interest were recorded in the test-trenches.