County: Galway Site name: Cloonascragh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 23E0461
Author: Fiona Rooney
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 544785m, N 717233m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.202660, -8.826451
The archaeological pre-development test excavations recorded no artefacts and/or features of archaeological significance. A total of 5 trenches were excavated. The general stratigraphy consisted of peat depths of up to 2m in Trenches A-C, in the north of the site, and 0.4m in Trench D in the south of the site. Excavation in Trench E, in the south of the site, revealed sand.
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