2014:155 - FREEPORT, Galway
County: Galway
Site name: FREEPORT
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 14E186
Author: Anne Carey
Author/Organisation Address: 80 Portacarron, Ballymoneen Road, Galway
Site type: Quay
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 523196m, N 722794m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.250053, -9.150773
Trial trenching was carried out at the site of a proposed development of four detached houses in Barna village. The site is bordered to the east by a narrow watercourse, Truskey Stream, the northern limit of which is believed to have been the site of a slipway or quay, known as Poll Mór. An Bord Pleanála requested that a site assessment be carried out to investigate the possible slipway. Eleven trenches were excavated and nothing of significance was found.