County: Galway Site name: Barrack Street, Dunmore
Sites and Monuments Record No.: GA017-002 Licence number: 23E0502
Author: Richard Crumlish
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 550865m, N 763466m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.618710, -8.742657
Monitoring of groundworks at a development at Barrack Street, Dunmore, County Galway, was carried out on 19 June 2023 and 16 May 2024. The development consisted of the demolition of a number of modern sheds and the construction of a two-storey dwelling. The monitoring was a condition of the planning permission and was necessary due to the site's location within the historic town of Dunmore (RMP GA017-002).
The development site was located between Barrack Street, to the south and the Sinking River, to the north, to the rear of a retail outlet fronting onto Barrack Street. The site contained a number of modern sheds within a yard and an adjacent garden. There were no features of archaeological significance visible within the development site.
The groundworks entailed the excavation of a raft foundation for the new building and connection to the existing sewer. The area excavated for the foundation was L-shaped and measured 8.5-16.5m north-north-east/south-south-west by 8-16m west-north-west/east-south-east and 0.3-1.5m deep.
The stratigraphy encountered during the monitoring of groundworks, in the yard and below the shed, consisted of tarmac and a concrete floor, above modern fills, above natural subsoil. Below the topsoil in the garden was natural subsoil. The stratigraphy indicated 19th- and 20th-century disturbance associated with the existing buildings on the site. Nothing of archaeological significance was in evidence. The one artefact retained was a clay pipe bowl with a 'REPEAL' stamp (Find No. 23E0502:1).
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