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2016:109 - TURLOUGH, Galway

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Galway

Site name: TURLOUGH

Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA065-013

Licence number: 15E0225

Author: Anne Carey

Author/Organisation Address: 80 Portacarron, Ballymoneen Road, Galway

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 492316m, N 738790m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.388283, -9.618850

Monitoring of groundworks for the Connemara Visitor Centre adjacent to Pearse’s Cottage, National Monument, were carried out from 18 May 2015 to 22 January 2016, for a total of forty-two days. Blanket bog was removed to bedrock over the site to a maximum depth of 3m. There were no features or finds of archaeological significance discovered during the works.


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