Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynattin, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynattin
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78103, -6.17885
- SMR number
- WI045-014001-
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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
Discovered in 1998 during archaeological monitoring of works associated with the IDA Industrial Park (Excavation Licence 98E0257). Excavation revealed a rectangular area (14m E-W x 8m) defined by a U-shaped trench (Wth 0.34m-0.44m; D 0.04m - 0.2m) with an entrance (Wth 1.35m) on the S side. There was a large amount of charcoal and burning present which led the excavator to suggest 'that the trench held a wooden palisade that burnt down. The presence of only one post-hole, that at the east side of the entrance, suggests that the trench may have contained a sill-beam in which posts were set that have now decayed without trace.' (Cotter 2000, 220). Finds included one sherd of pottery and numerous pieces of flint. (ibid)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 24 January 2013
References
Cotter, E. 2000 Ballynattin. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1998: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 220 (No. 686). Bray. Wordwell
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.