County: Galway Site name: ORANMORE BAY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09D18; 09R66
Author: Eoghan Kieran, Moore Marine Services, Corporate House, Ballybrit Business Park, Galway.
Site type: Assessment
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 529516m, N 724990m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.270559, -9.056668
Moore Marine was commissioned by ESB Networks to carry out an underwater impact assessment of a power-cable route across Oranmore Bay from the townland of Roscam to Rinville in Co. Galway. The route passed directly adjacent to an intertidal boundary wall identified during the field survey, and GA094–075 (castle). The cable route then travelled across a flat barren muddy intertidal zone to Roscam Point. The field survey recorded the presence of a series of agricultural lazy-bed ridge and furrows at this point.
No archaeological material was noted during the dive survey of the cable route across the mouth of Oranmore Bay. It recorded that there was a mixed seabed varying from bedrock and mobile shell to sand and then back to mobile sand and shell. The southern shore of the cable route was comprised of a boulder and cobble beach flanked by a clay sea cliff. There were no archaeological finds of features noted in this area.
