National Museum of Ireland to assess Connemara trackway

Galway Bay fm newsroom – The National Museum of Ireland is to carry out a survey on a trackway in Connemara now it's been revealed that Galway Bay could be ‘younger' than first thought. According to today's Irish Times, precise dating of a fragment from an ancient oak trackway, discovered at the northern shoreline, suggests the bay was built about 1700 BC. Seán Ó Coistealbha from Spiddal submitted the fragment to the British laboratory for radiocarbon dating. Tests reveal that Galway Bay could be less than 3 thousand 700 years old. The oak trackway was discovered between Furbo and Spiddal by a local resident last Spring and alerted NUIG to the find. A preliminary survey of the trackway will be carried out by the National Museum of Ireland, but it's feared that warm temperatures forecast over the coming weeks may damage the track.