Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Flat cemetery
Ballon, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballon
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Urns found A.D. 1853
- Coordinates
- 52.74254, -6.77830
- SMR number
- CW013-065----
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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
Extensive cemetery of pit and cist burials associated with bowl and vase food vessel and cordoned urn pottery, apparently covering much of Ballon Hill. References to largely levelled entrenchments and earthworks and 'the site of old rath', suggest hilltop may have been enclosed, possibly with ringfort or with ring-barrow associated with complex. No visible surface traces. Area has been cleared and improved. (JRSAI 1853, 295; JRSAI 1959, 31-3, with refs; JRSAI 1970, 109).
Test trenching carried out within area of constraint in 2005 by Coilin Ó Drisceoil (Ó Drisceoil, 2008, p. 18) failed to reveal anything of archaeological significance.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 03 February 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.