County: Carlow Site name: Ballybar Upper
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: E002600
Author: Áine Richardson, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork.
Site type: Burnt-mound trough
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 673959m, N 671622m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.790542, -6.903464
The site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown. Testing carried out under Ministerial Direction number A021/042 on this site in 2005 identified two shallow deposits of burnt-mound material. This material contained heat-shattered stone and charcoal in a black charcoal-stained silty clay. It was confined to Trench 1. The two deposits were roughly circular in plan and measured 2m and 1.2m in diameter, with a depth of 0.1m and 0.2m.
Full resolution was conducted on this site between 15 and 16 April 2006. This revealed one feature, which has been interpreted as the remains of a possible trough. However, the area had been severely disturbed by ploughing and other modern agricultural activity, thereby destroying possible archaeology.
