County: Galway Site name: Laurencefields, Loughrea
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA105–184 Licence number: 07E0691
Author: Jerry O’Sullivan, Castletaylor, Ardrahan, Co. Galway.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 560464m, N 716880m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.200892, -8.591738
A test-pit was hand-excavated immediately east of a cillín burial-ground in Laurencefields, on the outskirts of Loughrea. This was to allow a sculpture to be erected by the Loughrea Environment Group. The sculpture commemorates the infants and juveniles buried in the cillín, and is also intended to promote the protection of the site from encroaching housing developments. The cillín is well defined by remnants of an enclosing wall and numerous rough grave markers (undressed fieldstones set on end). The test-pit, measuring 2m by 1m, was opened 15m east of the cillín but, apart from a shallow loam topsoil over limestone bedrock, nothing was found.
