County: Galway Site name: Roscam Vernacular outbuildings
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 10E0172
Author: Thaddeus C. Breen, 13 Wainsfort Crescent, Dublin 6W for project director Valerie J. Keeley.
Site type: 13436 22421
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 529516m, N 724990m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.270559, -9.056672
Excavations took place in July 2010, in advance of a proposed development of a three-bay slatted house and milking parlour. Archaeological features identified consisted of a small burnt pit of unknown antiquity, and some vernacular archaeology. The vernacular archaeology consisted of a clay-bonded wall, a mortar and cobble surface and a possible threshing platform. These features are likely to have been associated with outbuildings which are believed to have survived on the site until the 1940s. The location of the burnt pit close to a known medieval complex (GA094–072002) suggests that it may date to the medieval period.
