2019:860 - Cloonmore, Galway

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Galway Site name: Cloonmore

Sites and Monuments Record No.: Immediate vicinity of GA043-061, and 061001---, (Ringfort-Rath and Childrens Burial Ground)) Licence number: 19E0420

Author: Declan Moore

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 540700m, N 749229m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.489731, -8.893579

The author was commissioned to undertake a programme of archaeological monitoring at the site of a proposed development at Cloonmore townland, Co. Galway.

The proposed development comprises the construction of a two storey dwelling and all associated site works in at a greenfield site.  The site is in an area of known archaeological interest, with a ringfort and children’s burial ground located nearby. Monitoring of topsoil stripping for the proposed development was carried out on 27 November 2019. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted.

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