2008:007 - Ballyboley, Antrim

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Antrim Site name: Ballyboley

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/08/184

Author: David Holloway, for John Cronin & Associates, 28 Upper Main Street, Buncrana, Co. Donegal.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 738179m, N 903777m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.862718, -5.847537

A housing development at 121 Ballyboley Road, Larne, is surrounded by seven monuments listed in the SMR in the townland of Ballyboley. Three of these are located within 500m of the development site. Testing (March 2008) revealed one archaeological find in the sod, a partially worked flint blade. No features/
deposits or finds of archaeological significance were discovered during the course of the testing.