2007:1880 - BALLYSALLAGH, Westmeath
County: Westmeath
Site name: BALLYSALLAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 07E0121 ext.
Author: Fran Wilkinson, Tempus Archaeology
Author/Organisation Address: Cregg, Craughwell, Co. Galway
Site type: Flat cemetery
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 631550m, N 758933m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.579336, -7.523574
The excavation of a small cemetery of probable Early Bronze Age date was undertaken in advance of development involving the construction of a road into a new light industrial/technological estate. Excavated features included a small cist, containing burnt human bone and a bowl (‘food vessel’), as well as three small cremation pits, an inhumation burial and a small pit filled with a deposit of charcoal-rich material.