County: Offaly Site name: Ballykilmurry
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0704
Author: Caitríona Gleeson, Mausrour, Gneeveguilla, Rathmore, Co. Kerry, for The Archaeology Company.
Site type: Agricultural features
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 629620m, N 727319m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.295344, -7.555688
Pre-development testing was carried out of a proposed development site at Ballykilmurry, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, due to the presence of a mound site (OF016–006) within the development area. The test excavation was undertaken on 20 July 2007. Construction at the site will not directly impact on the mound, which will remain in situ as a landscape feature.
Four trenches of varying lengths were excavated at regular intervals (broadly 5m apart) across the north and west of the site following the footprint of proposed construction. A number of 19th- and 20th-century landscape features were exposed including a possible hedgerow bank, field boundaries, furrows and drains. Anomalous charcoal patches were noted in two of the four trenches at the site.
