County: Antrim Site name: GLENAVY ROAD, BALLYCARRICKMADDY, LISBURN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ANT063-025 Licence number: AE/10/184
Author: Ruairí Ó Baoill
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 722129m, N 866984m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.536484, -6.112789
Test trenching took place on 10–11 January 2011 at a proposed development site at the rear of No. 102 Glenavy Road and fronting on to Hungry House Lane, Ballycarrickmaddy, Lisburn, Co. Antrim. The proposed development was in close proximity to ANT063-025, an enclosure, possibly an Early Christian rath. The archaeological evaluation was required to assist the NIEA to make an informed response to the Planning Service.
No archaeological strata, features or artefacts were observed during the test trenching that were earlier than the late 19th or early 20th century. These modern features included two field drains, the slight remains of a red brick structure and several adjacent spreads, all directly above subsoil, which yielded glazed machine-made bricks, bottle glass, slate and iron. It clear that there was building and other human activity in the field within the last century but which is now buried beneath the sod of the current field. The evaluation at the proposed development revealed nothing of archaeological significance. No evidence of the enclosure/rath was uncovered and it would appear that the monument, if it survives, is most likely located to the north of the proposed development.
Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University, Belfast BT7 1NN
