County: Galway Site name: St. Joseph's Convent School, Clifden
Sites and Monuments Record No.: None Licence number: 19E0744
Author: Anne Carey
Site type: Nineteenth-century orphanage and industrial school
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 466111m, N 750764m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.489835, -10.017647
Pre-development testing was carried out in the grounds of St. Joseph’s Convent School, protected structure RPS 593, Clifden, Co. Galway, on 3 and 4 December 2019, in response to a planning application by Galway County Council for the re-development of the site as accommodation. Fourteen trenches were mechanically excavated through anomalies that were discovered during a programme of geophysical survey at the site and a further two trenches were mechanically excavated in a previously overgrown area to the north of the convent building.
No historical buried features or any archaeological features were discovered during the works.
80 Portacarron, Ballymoneen Road, Galway.
