County: Monaghan Site name: Ballingarry
Sites and Monuments Record No.: MO031–106 Licence number: 06E0872
Author: Matthew Seaver, CRDS Ltd, Unit 8, Dundrum Business Park, Dundrum, Dublin.
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 688408m, N 804482m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.982043, -6.652103
An assessment was carried out in September 2006 in Ballingarry, Co. Monaghan. The development is located within the constraint circle of a monument listed as an earthwork. This site was recorded on McCrea’s 18th-century map of County Monaghan and may well have been a ringfort. There are no traces of the monument aboveground. The site is located on the lower south-eastern slope of a steep drumlin.
Five test-trenches were excavated, ranging from 18m to 54m in length. They revealed shallow topsoil overlying natural boulder clay. No archaeological remains were exposed. The earthwork is most likely to have been located further east on the higher more gently sloping part of the slope.
