County: Offaly Site name: Ballinrath
Sites and Monuments Record No.: OF011–032 Licence number: 06E0715
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc na Gréine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 658451m, N 727938m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.298518, -7.123150
Planning permission for a single residential development at Ballinrath, Edenderry, included a condition requiring testing. The site is located c. 80m to the east of a possible castle site for which there are now no extant or surface traces. Monitoring of development works of an adjacent site to the east undertaken by the writer in 2003 did not uncover anything of archaeological interest (Excavations 2003, No. 1508, 03E1412).
Four trenches were excavated by machine fitted with a toothless ditching/grading bucket. Nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered.
