County: Sligo Site name: BALLINCAR
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0112
Author: Martin A. Timoney
Site type: Midden
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 567308m, N 838812m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.297032, -8.502204
Ballincar House, on a 5.5-acre site on the crest of the east-west glacial ridge of the Rosses Point peninsula, dates on map evidence to between 1877 and 1885. It was converted into a hotel in about 1968 but was much altered in the 1970s and afterwards. This application was to replace it with a much larger hotel complex and associated works. The groundworks around the new Ballincar House were monitored in 2003 (Excavations 2003, No. 1611) without indication of any archaeological finds.
The section of the trench for the stormwater pipe to the river between Ballincar and Cregg townlands, a distance of about 1km, was monitored over several days. This was along the realigned road, at the west end of which a shell midden had been cut through by the County Council some years ago. There is a Middle Bronze Age 14C date from this midden. The midden was protected by fresh clay but no archaeological finds were uncovered.
Bóthar an Chorainn, Keash, Co. Sligo
