County: Carlow Site name: Ballybar Lower
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: E002620
Author: Liam Hackett, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork.
Site type: Prehistoric activity
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 672712m, N 671322m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.788007, -6.922012
The site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown. A localised series of twelve pits of varied sizes with no apparent order or structural evidence was excavated, containing prehistoric pottery, an exquisitely made white flint lozenge-shaped arrowhead and trace amounts of carbonised grains. A large figure-of-eight kiln, measuring 3.2m long (east–west), 1.5m wide and cut into and utilising the underlying grey limestone bedrock, with in situ burning, was located c. 15m to the north of the cluster of pits.
