The following report describes the results of the excavation A041/E2006 carried out between March 2005 and November 2006, in the townland of Rahally (NGR 166007 225872). The site is located on a prominent hill in the parish of Grange in the barony of Kilconnell, Co. Galway. Three
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The site was identified by McCaffrey in 1952 during the course of fieldwork for an MA thesis and was subsequently added to the Record of Monuments and Places as a ringfort and cillín (GA113:109). The site was not marked on any of the Ordnance Survey map editions and no trace of a
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The excavation revealed the presence of a burnt mound with associated pits and troughs. The two troughs both had internal stakeholes suggesting in one case some form of lining and in the other some form of suspension rack. The remains of a H-frame suspension frame was situated no
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This report presents an analysis of the individual structures and the historical and social background of a farmstead which was excavated at Lavally between March and April 2008. The complex of three buildings represents a mid19th–century farmstead likely to have been constructed
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A small, Late Bronze Age, burnt mound was identified consisting of a large sub-rectangular pit which was interpreted as a trough and a smaller roughly oval-shaped pit which may also have been a trough. The large trough had internal stake-holes and pits. A radiocarbon date of 731–
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Archaeological excavations at Cross, Co. Galway, were carried out in advance of the N6 Galway to Ballinasloe road scheme (Contract 3) under Ministerial Direction A024 and assigned the Excavation No. E2069. The excavation was undertaken to investigate archaeological deposits expos
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The discovery of a previously undocumented burial-ground attracts human interest. We feel a certain sensitivity among the surroundings, unfortunately all too often from some deep- rooted memory of our own attendance at the funerals of family or friends. Deep within ourselves we
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