County: Galway Site name: Site 198, Rathwilladoon
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0464
Author: James Kyle, Irish Archaeological Consultancy Ltd, 120B Greenpark Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
Site type: Enclosure
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 541429m, N 694643m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.999308, -8.872555
Investigations took place along the route of the proposed N18 Gort to Crusheen road scheme. The site at Rathwilladoon (Site 198) was identified during the walkover study for the EIS and recorded by earthwork survey. The site consisted of a possible enclosure defined by a fragmentary stone wall up to 1.1m high and 0.8m wide. The wall was highly fragmentary on the west to north arc. The interior of the site measured 26m north–south by 23m and rose from west to east. Two field walls abutted the site, one running from north to south, the other running east to the railway.
Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded in either of the two hand-dug trenches at the site, or in the machine-stripped area. It was therefore concluded that this was part of a dense web of local paddocks and field walls and not an early enclosure.
