County: Antrim Site name: BALLYUTOAG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: —
Author: Cormac McSparron and Alan Reilly, NAC
Site type: Enclosure
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 729223m, N 880394m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.655148, -5.997332
Monitoring of topsoil removal took place at an extension to Hightown Quarry, Ballyutoag townland, on the outskirts of Belfast, Co. Antrim.
One piece of possible archaeology was uncovered during monitoring in Area 2. A long, quite shallow, gently curving ditch was found, running c. north-east/south-west. It was c. 30m long, 1.3–1.6m wide and 0.6m deep.
No artefacts or samples suitable for dating techniques were found in the sections of this ditch that were investigated, making dating impossible. It can only be said that it does not appear on any maps. There is good map evidence for the area from the 1830s onwards, and this feature therefore appears to pre-date this period.
Unit 6, Farset Enterprise Park, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast
