2005:059 - BALLYBANNON, Carlow

NMI Burial Excavation Records

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.