County: Wicklow Site name: BALLYNAGRAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0810
Author: Seán Shanahan, Shanarc Archaeological Consultancy, Loc na Mon, Sion Road, Kilkenny.
Site type: Pits
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 726171m, N 691297m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.957600, -6.122101
Monitoring revealed two areas of archaeological potential in September 2009 at the site of a proposed landfill site at Ballynagran, Coolbeg Cross, Co. Wicklow. These areas were subsequently excavated in October 2009.
In Area A, two pits and a possible furrow were identified and excavated in an area measuring roughly 5m by 3m. The earliest feature comprised an area of intense burning within a shallow irregular cut
(C.12) measuring 2.5m by 1m. A linear cut, possibly a furrow with a U-shaped profile, measured 2.63m by 0.45m and truncated the northern part of C.12. An oval pit (C.2) measuring 0.65m by 0.35m truncated the area of burning to the west. A sherd of blackware pottery was recovered from the fill of cut C.2.
Area B was situated c. 40m to the west of Area A. It contained a large pit feature of uncertain archaeological significance and an irregular, oblong-shaped cut measuring 2.92m by 1.16m that contained two fills. No artefactual evidence was recovered from this feature.
