County: Galway Site name: Claddagh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA094-100 Licence number: 18E0362
Author: Anne Carey
Site type: Within Zone of Notification for medieval town
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 529562m, N 724796m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.268820, -9.055941
Pre-development testing was carried out at the Piscatorial School in the Claddagh, Galway. The Piscatorial School, a protected structure, RPS 2203, was built in 1846 by the Dominican Order, on a site adjacent to the Dominican Church. It was intended to provide an education in fishing for the children of the Claddagh but it was not successful in this objective and it became an ordinary National School after 1887. The redevelopment of the site involved the construction of an extension to the rear of the Piscatorial School and two test trenches were excavated in the area of this proposed extension. A highly disturbed fill and finds of nineteenth- to twentieth-century date were discovered in both trenches. Nothing of archaeological significance was discovered.
80 Portacarron, Ballymoneen Road, Galway
