Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit
Ballough, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballough
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.52703, -6.20593
- SMR number
- DU008-095----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Identified during pre-development works for the M1 (Licence no. 01E1138) this site consisted of five large prehistoric pits 91.6m-3m diam.), possibly of Bronze Age date. To the east of the pits was a small area of c.5m sq. contained eleven pits, two post-holes and eighteen stake-holes. A subcircular pit (0.55m by 0.22m) produced a quantity of burnt bone, and an oval pit (0.16m by 0.14m), produced a single struck flint, a carbonised hazelnut shell (Corylus avellana), a carbonised fruit stone and a single sherd of prehistoric pottery. (Chapple 2002, 21).
Compiled by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 5 February 2015
References
Chapple, R. 2002 Archaeological Excavation, Site 23, Ballough, Airport-Balbriggan By-Pass Contract 2m Northern Motorway, Co. Dublin (Licence no. 02E0545). Unpublished report. National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.