2006:932 - Ballyhade, Kildare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kildare Site name: Ballyhade

Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: E002573

Author: Linda Hegarty, Headland Archaeology Ltd, Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork

Site type: Cremation pit cemetery

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 678115m, N 680816m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.872572, -6.839658

The site was excavated as part of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme: Kilcullen to Powerstown. The site was situated on a south-facing slope immediately north of a tertiary road leading north-east from Palatine village. Excavation revealed six cremation pits clustered in an area measuring 6m by 4m in the centre of the site. All six pits contained deposits with burnt-bone fragments, with two of the pits yielding prehistoric pottery sherds. A small modern gravel-extraction pit was located towards the northern end of the site.