/  192
 
 
Date:
 
 January
 
2009
 
Client:
 
Galway
 
County
 
Council
 
Project
 
code:
 
NGB05
 
N6
 
Galway
 
to
 
Ballinasloe
 
Scheme,
 
Contract
 
2.
 
Final
 
Report
 
on
 
archaeological
 
investigations
 
at
 
Site
 
E2046,
 
an
 
enclosure
 
ditch
 
and
 
cemetery
 
in
 
the
 
townland
 
of
 
Carrowkeel,
 
Co.
 
Galway
 
Volume
 
I
 
By:
 
Brendon
 
Wilkins
 
and
 
Susan
 
Lalonde
 
Excavation
 
no.:
 
E2046
 
Director:
 
Brendon
 
Wilkins
 
NGR:
 
159326/223949
 
RMP
 
No.:
 
GA097
066
 
 
 0
Date:
 
 January
 
2009
 
Client:
 
Galway
 
County
 
Council
 
Project
 
code:
 
NGB05
 
N6
 
Galway
 
to
 
Ballinasloe
 
Scheme,
 
Contract
 
2.
 
Final
 
Report
 
on
 
archaeological
 
investigations
 
at
 
Site
 
E2046,
 
an
 
enclosure
 
ditch
 
and
 
cemetery
 
in
 
the
 
townland
 
of
 
Carrowkeel,
 
Co.
 
Galway
 
Volume
 
I
 
By:
 
Brendon
 
Wilkins
 
and
 
Susan
 
lalonde
 
Excavation
 
no.:
 
E2046
 
Director:
 
Brendon
 
Wilkins
 
NGR:
 
159326/223949
 
RMP
 
No.:
 
GA097
066
 
 
Headland
 
Archaeology
 
Ltd:
 
N6
 
Galway
 
to
 
Ballinasloe
 
Scheme,
 
Contract
 
2,
 
E2046
 
Final
 
Report
 
1
 
CONTENTS
 
PAGE
 
Vol
 
I.
 
1
 
Summary
 
4
 
2
 
Introduction
 
4
 
3
 
Site
 
description
 
and
 
location
 
5
 
4
 
Aims
 
and
 
methodology
 
5
 
5
 
Results
 
5
 
The
 
natural
 
deposits
 
6
 
Phase
 
1:
 
features
 
pre
dating
 
the
 
main
 
enclosure
 
and
 
cemetery
 
6
 
Phase
 
1
 
ditches
 
6
 
Phase
 
1
 
discrete
 
features
 
7
 
Phase
 
2:
 
the
 
main
 
enclosure
 
and
 
associated
 
features
 
7
 
(excluding
 
the
 
cemetery)
 
Phase
 
2:
 
the
 
cemetery
 
14
 
Cemetery
 
Phase
 
1
 
(c.650
 
 
850)
 
14
 
Cemetery
 
Phase
 
2
 
(c.850
 
 
1050)
 
15
 
Cemetery
 
Phase
 
3
 
(c.1050
 
 
1250)
 
15
 
Cemerty
 
Phase
 
4
 
(c.1340
 
 
1450)
 
16
 
Phase
 
3:
 
Linear
 
cultivation,
 
later
 
agricultural
 
and
 
natural
 
16
 
features
 
6
 
Discussion
 
Settlement/cemeteries
 
16
 
Funerary
 
practices
 
18
 
Segregated
 
 burial
 
in
 
the
 
early
 
medieval
 
period
 
19
 
7
 
Archive
 
20
 
8
 
References
 
21
 

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