2025:462 - Ballinowlart North, Offaly
County: Offaly
Site name: Ballinowlart North
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 23E0656 ext.
Author: Ciara McCarthy & Caitlyn Haskins
Author/Organisation Address: Mizen Archaeology, Unit 3, Kinsale Commercial Park, Kinsale, Co. Cork
Site type: Various
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 661078m, N 726728m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.287340, -7.083984
Archaeological testing was carried out over the course of 17 days in February and March 2025. It included 84 test trenches across 30 fields. Twelve of the trenches were enlarged to investigate possible features, which extended beyond their limits.
A total of ten cultural heritage features were identified. Two of these were interpreted as the result of modern burning events, while eight were of potentially archaeological origin. Radiocarbon dates returned a late medieval date (c. 1490-1604 cal. AD) for a pit and an early post-medieval date (1620-1672 cal. AD) for an area of burning.