County: Galway Site name: Eanach Dhúin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA069-001 Licence number: 16E0512
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 528320m, N 738110m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.388285, -9.077566
Monitoring of groundworks at a development in Eanch Dhúin townland, on the shore of Lough Corrib in County Galway, was carried out on 21 and 22 November 2016. The development consisted of the construction of a dwelling house, garage/shed and waste-water treatment system. The monitoring was necessary as a portion of the development site was located within the constraint for an archaeological complex (GA069-001), now a redundant record, much of which consists of the Annaghdown Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Site which is National Monument (No. 49). The monitoring was a condition of planning permission. The writer had carried out pre-development testing on an adjacent site to the east in 2012, under Licence 12E0234. Nothing of archaeological significance was in evidence at that time.
The development site was located across two fields of pasture. The groundworks which took place were the reduction in levels for the access road/driveway, dwelling, garage/shed and waste-water treatment system. Below the topsoil were natural subsoils and a small area of fill. The topsoil contained a yellow brick fragment and one sherd of modern pottery. The fill consisted of small-medium sized rocks and contained red brick fragments and one modern pottery sherd. The area of fill coincided with the highest part of the site where the landowner had informed the writer previously of a hill of sand and gravel having been removed for use in the construction of a nearby dwelling. The fill was probably field/land clearance used to backfill the small quarry. Nothing of archaeological significance was in evidence.
4 Lecka Grove, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
