2014:390 - BALLYNABARNY (5), Wexford

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.