County: Wexford Site name: Ballynabarny 5
Sites and Monuments Record No.: n/a Licence number: E004563
Author: Edel Ruttle
Site type: Early Bronze Age and Developed Iron Age burnt stonemounds
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 699502m, N 641919m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.519548, -6.533846
Ballynabarny 5 was located on the proposed M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy Scheme, Co Wexford. The site was situated in a pasture field at the confluence of the River Slaney and its tributary, the River Ballyedmond. The excavation revealed two burnt stone mounds located either side of a palaeochannel. The earliest feature on the site was an oval trough with a flat stone base, dated to the start of the Early Bronze Age (22nd to 19th centuries BC). Another oval trough with stake-holes in its base was dated to late in the Early Bronze Age (18th to 17th centuries BC). A burnt stone mound that overlay the second trough measured 13m by 9.5m. A later phase of use of the site was represented by another oval trough dated to the Developed Iron Age (4th to 2nd centuries BC) that was itself overlain by a burnt stone mound measuring 14m by 6m.
TVAS (Ireland) Ltd, AHISH, BALLINRUAN, CRUSHEEN, CO. CLARE
