2002:0456 - BALLOUGH AGI TO RdX 1/53, Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath, Dublin

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Dublin Site name: BALLOUGH AGI TO RdX 1/53, Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0194

Author: Redmond Tobin, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.

Site type: Habitation site, Metalworking site and Industrial site

Period/Dating: Multi-period

ITM: E 659440m, N 745567m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.456810, -7.104996

Monitoring of Section 1A of the Pipeline to the West continued from Section 6 without any break. The pipeline originated from Ballough AGI (above-ground installation) and continued west to Kinnegad. During topsoil-stripping 33 sites of archaeological potential were recorded. These included Bronze Age enclosures, cereal-drying kilns, pits, fulachta fiadh, a flint-knapping floor, an early historic cemetery, a circular enclosure with burials, an early historic industrial site, a smithing site and an iron-smelting site. Most of sites were archaeological in origin, although a few were discounted as non-antiquities.

2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin