County: Louth Site name: BALGATHERAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 21:107 Licence number: 95E0070
Author: Tim Coughlan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 704137m, N 778933m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.749613, -6.421062
Two trenches were opened by machine on the site of a possible barrow at Balgatheran, Co. Louth. The site is recorded in the Archaeological Survey of County Louth as being a roughly circular, flat-topped mound, truncated on the north side by a field fence. Its dimensions are recorded as being 6.8m east-west and 6.3m north-south.
In March 1993, the ground level at the site was reduced by at least 1m. This was done during the building of a new bungalow, immediately to the south of the barrow, with no archaeological supervision. An inspection of the site was undertaken on 9 March 1995 and there was no evidence of the barrow. The OPW subsequently requested the excavation of a test-trench to identify the remaining archaeological deposits, if any. Two trenches were excavated on 30 March. No archaeological material was evident.
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