2016:849 - Rinn na Mara, Barna, Galway

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Galway Site name: Rinn na Mara, Barna

Sites and Monuments Record No.: Adjacent to RMP No. GA093-020 Licence number: 16E0249

Author: Anne Carey

Site type: Adjacent to graveyard

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 523062m, N 722849m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.250423, -9.152891

Six trial trenches were excavated at the site of a proposed housing development at Rinn na Mara townland, Barna, Co. Galway, over a two-day period from 25 May, 2016. A large amount of modern infill had been deposited in low ground at the south-eastern end of the site. No features or finds of archaeological significance was discovered during the works.

80 Portacarron, Ballymoneen Road, Galway.