2020:136 - Creagh, Galway

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Galway Site name: Creagh

Sites and Monuments Record No.: Adjacent to RMP No. GA080-008 Licence number: 20E0368

Author: Anne Carey

Site type: Adjacent to two churches and a graveyard

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 586494m, N 731274m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.331541, -8.202763

Monitoring of groundworks was carried out over a seven-day period from 20–24 July and 11–12 August, 2020, at Creagh townland, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, in compliance with planning conditions. Groundworks comprised the reduction of the site of a proposed dwelling house by a maximum depth of 1.5m, involving the complete removal of sod, topsoil, subsoil, fills and part of the underlying natural silty sand. No finds or features of archaeological significance were discovered during the works.

80 Portacarron, Ballymoneen Road, Galway.