2007:1879 - Ballysallagh, Westmeath

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Westmeath Site name: Ballysallagh

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0121

Author: Fran Wilkinson, Tempus Archaeology, Cregg, Craughwell, Co. Galway.

Site type: Bronze Age cemetery

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 631550m, N 758933m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.579336, -7.523574

Test-trenching was undertaken in advance of development involving the construction of a light industrial/technological estate and associated services. During this work, a number of features of archaeological significance, including several burials of potential prehistoric date, were identified close to the crest of a small east–west-oriented gravel ridge.