2014:156 - ORANMORE, Galway
County: Galway
Site name: ORANMORE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA095-110
Licence number: 14E198
Author: Anne Carey
Author/Organisation Address: 80 Portacarron, Ballymoneen Road, Galway
Site type: Midden
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 537809m, N 724651m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.268775, -8.932311
Twenty three trenches were excavated through the site of a proposed retail development. Shallow depths of soil were noted in many of the trenches, with three shallow shell middens found to the west of the site. Finds comprised a small number of post-medieval pottery sherds.
Editor’s note: this report was previously labelled “close to Oranmore castle”.