2018:372 - Claddagh, Galway

NMI Burial Excavation Records

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

Monitoring of groundworks was undertaken at the rear of the Piscatorial School, Claddagh, during a redevelopment of the building. Excavations of a foundation for a new extension at the rear of the nineteenth-century school building revealed the remains of a stone-built outbuilding centrally located along the rear wall of the site. The outbuilding contained a sub-surface tidal septic tank with an arched brick roof. A wall ran from this outbuilding to the rear wall of the school, defining yard space for boys and girls. There were no finds or features of archaeological interest during the works.

80 Portacarron, Ballymoneen Road, Galway