2013:614 - 11 Eyre Square, Townparks, Galway, Galway

Three pre-development trenches were excavated to the rear of a nineteenth-century building at No. 11 Eyre Square between 31 October and 4 December, 2013. Trenches 1 and 2 were excavated side by side in a former yard at the rear of the property. Both trenches were similar in stratigraphy, comprising natural subsoil and boulder clay with relatively shallow depths. There were no finds from either trench. Trench 3 was excavated just to the rear of the nineteenth-century building. Two pits were exposed underlying a re-deposited mixed fill. The pits were between 0.7m and 0.85m in depth and both had a rich humic fill that yielded finds of pottery, shell and animal bone, as well as some clay pipe stem fragments and a small quantity of glass. The pottery, a glazed red earthenware of a type common in Galway, has been dated to between the seventeenth and nineteenth century.

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