Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Ballybannon, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybannon
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78454, -6.93237
- SMR number
- CW012-114----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Excavated in advance of construction of the N9/N10 Kilcullen-Waterford Road (Excavation Licence number E2617). To the S of a stream. 'A series of eight small cooking sites, filled with pebbles and medium-sized stones, were excavated towards the north-east end of the site. One cooking site produced occasional flecks of charcoal and fragments of animal bone. Five pits were also excavated in the north-east part of the site. No artefacts were recovered.' (Richardson, Á. 2009, 38)
Reference:
Richardson, Á. (2009) 'Ballybannon Pits, burnt-mound material' in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 38 (154). Bray. Wordwell
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.