County: Carlow Site name: BALLYBANNON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A021/058
Author: Joanne Hughes, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 4b, Europa Enterprise Park, Midleton, Co. Cork.
Site type: Ditch, pits
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 671949m, N 670872m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.784066, -6.933432
This area is situated to the north of earthwork site SMR 12:12 and is separated from that site by a modern field boundary. The features identified here during Contract 3 testing on the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road scheme may be related to those on A021/057 (see No. 58 above) for that reason. A north–south-oriented ditch containing disarticulated animal bone and a number of pits were also identified. However, sample excavation of these features did not provide any diagnostic dating evidence, and no recognisable structure or pattern was identified in their arrangement.