2013:339 - BALLYCARRICKMADDY: Magheragall Presbyterian Church,, Antrim
County: Antrim
Site name: BALLYCARRICKMADDY: Magheragall Presbyterian Church,
Sites and Monuments Record No.: ANT 063:028
Licence number: AE/13/159E
Author: Stephen Gilmore, Northern Archaeological Consultancy Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Farset Enterprise Park, 638 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7DY
Site type: Ringfort - rath
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
ITM: E 720270m, N 867591m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.542384, -6.141246
Test trenching and excavation were carried out on a small section of rath ditch ahead of the construction of a new church hall. The heavily disturbed remains of a rath (ANT 063:028) were already recorded within the Sites and Monuments Record. Ground being cleared for the construction of the new church hall uncovered a section of the infilled ditch. The ditch was 4m wide and, from the original ground surface, 2m deep. Hazelnut shell from the base of the ditch returned a radiocarbon date of AD 970 to 1030.