County: Galway Site name: Kilcornan
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA095-059 Licence number: 22E0566
Author: Fiona Rooney
Site type: Adjacent to church and graveyard
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
ITM: E 542294m, N 720291m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.229875, -8.864285
Pre-development test trenching was carried out at Kilcornan, Co. Galway. A total of 12 test trenches were mechanically excavated. Ten test trenches (TC-TL), most measuring 50m x 2m, were excavated in the west of the area. No features and/or finds of archaeological significance were encountered during the course of the testing.
Two test trenches (TA & TB) were excavated in the area to the north of the Church and Graveyard (GA095-059/059001). Test trench A measured 55m in length and 2m in width; excavations revealed an area of archaeological potential in the middle of the trench. It measured c. 20m in width was defined by 2 shell midden deposits and appears to correspond to the linear bank feature identified on the LiDAR.
Test trench B measured 20m in length x 2m in width: excavations revealed the remains of the 19th-century road marked on the 1st edition OSi 6-inch map and the LiDAR.
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