County: Westmeath Site name: Ballysallagh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0121 ext.
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
The excavation of a small cemetery of probable Early Bronze Age date was undertaken in advance of development involving the construction of a road into a new light industrial/technological estate. Excavated features included a small cist, containing burnt human bone and a bowl (‘food vessel’), as well as three small cremation pits, an inhumation burial and a small pit filled with a deposit of charcoal-rich material.
