County: Mayo Site name: Station Road, Balla
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0584
Author: Dominic Delany, Dominic Delany & Associates, Unit 3, Howley Court, Oranmore, Co. Galway.
Site type: Possible fulacht fiadh
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 524084m, N 818346m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.108580, -9.160933
Pre-development testing was carried out as part of an assessment for a proposed development at Station Road, Balla, Co. Mayo. Six parallel test-trenches were excavated throughout the site. Towards the west end of Trench 2 a spread of burnt stone and charcoal was encountered within a peat layer. This deposit extended for 8m along the line of the excavated trench. It was truncated by a later linear feature which ran east–west and was backfilled with sand. Immediately to the west of this area there was a concentration of unburnt, well-rounded stones.
