County: Mayo Site name: PRISON SOUTH, Balla
Sites and Monuments Record No.: MA079-070 Licence number: 23E0616
Author: Patrick Walsh
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 525227m, N 787056m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.827625, -9.135794
Planning Permission was sought to construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works at Prison South, Balla, Co. Mayo. The proposed house was within the Zone of Archaeological potential for the monument MA079-070, so pre-development testing was required. Topsoil varied from 0.2–0.5m deep. The natural varied from an orange compacted stony subsoil to a greyer compacted natural boulder clay on the higher ground. Trench 1 was targeted at the possible location of the north-west enclosing element of the ringfort and deepened to 0.8m through the natural as a precaution. Nothing of archaeological significance was found.
Murneen South, Claremorris, Co Mayo
