2023:103 - Ballynacourty, Galway

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Galway Site name: Ballynacourty

Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA103-029 Licence number: 22E0035 extension

Author: Jacinta Kiely

Site type: Adjacent to a ringfort

Period/Dating: Undetermined

ITM: E 536805m, N 718812m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.215960, -8.946191

Monitoring of ground disturbance works associated with the construction of a single house site in Ballynacourty, Co. Galway was undertaken. The house site is located in a field immediately west of ringfort GA103-029. The ground slopes to the west. Stripping of all topsoil from the area of the house, paths, garage, entrance and road was monitored. No archaeological stratigraphy, features or artefacts were recorded.

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