County: Galway Site name: Raheen and Moanbaun
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 12E41
Author: Dominic Delany
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 548939m, N 728584m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.305081, -8.766103
Test excavations were carried on a green field site at Raheen and Moanbaun 3km north of Athenry in mitigation of the proposed Northern Ring Road. The work was commissioned by Galway County Council and took place in March 2012. A centreline trench (L 500m) and forty-four offsets (L 15m) were excavated by machine. The centreline trench ran through a former townland boundary wall and this was cleaned and recorded. The wall was a substantial double dry stone wall measuring 1.2m high by 0.95m thick. It was constructed of limestone boulders with smaller cobbles and broken stones used in the infill. The wall appears rebuilt and is more substantial than the neighbouring field boundaries. It is not ancient and there was evidence of an earlier hedgerow. Nothing of archaeological significance was discovered during testing with no features and only occasional modern finds retrieved from the topsoil.
Dominic Delany & Associates, Unit 3, Howley Court, Oranmore, Co. Galway
