2010:344 - Kilronan, Inishmore, Galway

A proposed development of fourteen houses on the eastern coast required test-trenches, as part of the site comes within an archaeological constraint zone with the adjacent field to south, reputedly the burial place of some French body/bodies who had been washed ashore in the past (GA111–015 burial, miscellaneous). In all, 25 trenches were cut and the bedrock of limestone outcrop was seldom reached as it lies 2–3m below ground level. The ground was almost exclusively man-modified sand dunes, with some ocean-rolled pebbles at 1m in depth in places. Some limestone outcrop did occur at or near the surface in a small number of sectors. Nothing of an archaeological nature became apparent here.