County: Galway Site name: Killaloonty
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 11E0331 Extension
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 541716m, N 752656m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.520638, -8.878908
Monitoring of site investigation works at a development site in Killaloonty townland, on the Weir Road on the western outskirts of Tuam, County Galway, was carried out on 10 July 2018. The project consisted of the expansion of a manufacturing facility, car parking and office accommodation. The monitoring was a condition of planning permission granted by An Bord Pleanála.
There were no recorded monuments within or in the immediate vicinity of the site. Pre-development testing had been carried out here by the author in September 2011 under Excavation Licence No. 11E0331. The testing consisted of fifteen test trenches, three of which were located to investigate anomalies which came to light during a geophysical survey carried out in July 2011. The test trenches revealed evidence of a building and two associated linear features of apparent 19th- or early 20th-century date. Only modern artefacts were uncovered. Nothing of archaeological significance was revealed.
The north-eastern half of the site was located in an overgrown field of pasture, while the south-western half was located in a stoned storage yard of an adjacent manufacturing facility.
The monitoring of the excavation of thirteen trial pits (by machine) revealed natural undisturbed stratigraphy in the field of pasture and modern fill above peat and natural subsoils within the stoned storage yard and a disturbed area at the south-western side of the field of pasture. Nothing of archaeological significance was in evidence.
4 Lecka Grove, Castlebar Road, Ballinrobe, County Mayo
