County: Tipperary Site name: BALLYKELLY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS053-064 Licence number: 05E0759
Author: Rose M. Cleary, Department of Archaeology, University College Cork
Site type: Pit
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 621378m, N 686135m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.925613, -7.682065
Pre-development test excavation was carried out within the zone of archaeological potential around a medieval church at Ballykelly, Cashel. Prior to excavation, the site was a green field without any surface indication of archaeological site(s). The excavation uncovered the upper levels of a medieval pit with 12th/13th-century Saintonge pottery on the surface, a second pit of unknown date with animal bone on the surface and a ditch with a 1.9m width on the surface. These features were concentrated in one area of a large landbank and close to the medieval parish church.
