County: Westmeath Site name: Laragh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: WM011-120---- Licence number: 22E0774
Author: Rory Sherlock
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 631798m, N 757650m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.567785, -7.519965
Five test trenches were excavated on the site of a proposed new house. The site lies within a 19th-century farmyard complex and test trenching revealed brick and stone surfaces associated with a house which is indicated on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map, but which was demolished before 1912, when the OS 25" map was surveyed. The house is likely to date to the late 1700s or early 1800s and the bricks used in the floor or pathway surfaces uncovered are similar to those used in an early 19th-century barn which still stands on the site. The extant barn and the associated farmyard walls, gates, piers and pillars will be preserved with the assistance of a Conservation Architect. No evidence was found for features associated with a nearby castle, which is shown on the Down Survey map for the area.
Oughterard, Co Galway
