2018:374 - CLAREGALWAY, Galway
County: Galway
Site name: CLAREGALWAY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA070-035001
Licence number: C000847; E004941
Author: Anne Carey
Author/Organisation Address: 80 Portacarron, Ballymoneen Road, Galway
Site type: Religious house - Franciscan friars
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 537032m, N 733411m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.347171, -8.945684
Nine test trenches were excavated at the site of a proposed burial ground extension to the west of the Fransciscan Friary, Claregalway, National Monument No. 165. The site had previously been the subject of a geophysical survey (November, 2017), and the archaeological testing examined anomalies identified in the geophysical report. Four of the nine trenches yielded evidence that corresponded with features recorded during the geophysical survey but none of these features were archaeological in nature. The eastern part of the site had been disturbed in recent years through the installation of a concrete sewer pipe and a metalled farm road.
Nothing of archaeological significance was discovered during the works.