County: Galway Site name: Beagh, Kilconly
Sites and Monuments Record No.: Vicinity of GA015-014---- and GA015-015---- Licence number: 22E0775
Author: Declan Moore
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 536007m, N 758388m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.571479, -8.966157
Archaeological monitoring of groundworks for a proposed single dwelling house in the townland of Beagh, to the south-east of Kilconly village, County Galway, was completed on October 19 2022. The subject site is in the vicinity of GA015-014----, an unclassified barrow (the proposed dwelling house is located roughly 30m from the zone of notification), and GA015-015----, a well which appears on the 1st edition map but is no longer extant and is not scheduled for inclusion in the next revision of the RMP. The monitoring was carried out in response to a planning condition.
The topsoil was stripped using a 13-tonne excavator fitted with a 1.9m-wide toothless ditching bucket. The stratigraphy observed comprised topsoil and sod, overlying a mid-brown to orange silty sand with inclusions of small- to medium-sized angular stones. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted.
3 Gort na Rí, Athenry, Co. Galway
