2005:177 - BALLYMAGUE, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork Site name: BALLYMAGUE

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 25:7 Licence number: 05E1110

Author: Sheila Lane, Deanrock Business Park, Togher, Cork.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 555283m, N 606063m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.204534, -8.654205

Six test-trenches were opened on a site at Ballymague, Buttevant, which is in the environs of a ringfort. Topsoil was removed to a depth of c. 0.5m. This overlay a light–mid-brown/orange stony clay with occasional large stones. No finds or features of an archaeological nature were noted during testing.