County: Galway Site name: Eanach Dhúin
Sites and Monuments Record No.: None Licence number: 17E0560
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 528355m, N 738089m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.388101, -9.077036
Monitoring of groundworks at a development in Eanach Dhúin townland in County Galway took place on 10 November 2017. The development consisted of the construction of a dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system. The monitoring was a condition of planning and was necessary as the site was located just outside of and adjacent to the constraint for the Annaghdown Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Site, which is a National Monument.
The development site was located in a field of pasture close to the shore of Lough Corrib. No features of archaeological significance were evident within the field. The writer had monitored groundworks at the adjacent site to the west in 2016 under Licence 16E0512 when nothing of archaeological significance was found.
The 2017 groundworks included reduction in levels for the access road/driveway, dwelling, garage/shed and wastewater treatment system. Below the topsoil were natural subsoils and one area of modern fill. No artefacts were recovered and nothing of archaeological significance was in evidence.
4 Lecka Grove, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo
