2005:792 - SITE 1, BALLYBAR UPPER, Kilkenny

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kilkenny Site name: SITE 1, BALLYBAR UPPER

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A021/030

Author: Linda Hegarty, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 4b, Europa Enterprise Park, Midleton, Co. Cork.

Site type: Four pits

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 673444m, N 671520m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.789687, -6.911119

Testing within the road-take here for the route of the proposed N9/N10 Kilcullen–Waterford scheme: Contract 3, Prumplestown to Powerstown, revealed four small pits. Two of these pits contained burnt bone. It is probable that other features will occur between the offset trenches.