Overview
Indicated — Ballylow is recorded as Settlement cluster at Ballylow. It preserves evidence of a place used for homes, seasonal shelter, farming or shared daily work. The source record also describes the surviving evidence; its details are kept below.
Who lived here and when
The record identifies Indicated — Ballylow as Settlement cluster. It does not safely name every person, family or worker who used it, or fix all phases to exact years.
Homes and daily life
The recorded type points to a place used for homes, seasonal shelter, farming or shared daily work. That explains the likely everyday purpose without claiming people, tools or customs that the exact record does not prove.
What was found
The saved source says: Situated within an extensive pattern of fields, covering 11 hectares, extending from Ballydonnell Brook up the side of Bulbaun mountain for 200m. Three irregular conjoined enclosures (max. dims. 50m E-W; 30m N-S) enclosed by poorly preserved stone and earthen banks, with a house foundation (dims. c. 8m x 5m) in the middle enclosure. There are smaller oval enclosures (dims. 10m x 5m) in the NE corner of each. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Why it ended
The saved record does not establish one certain ending. A change in farming, water level, trade, fuel, ownership, route or settlement pattern may have ended the use, but no single cause is claimed without evidence.
Why it mattered
Indicated — Ballylow fixes a real piece of work or daily life to an exact place. Even where names are lost, its remains show how people obtained food and materials, organised land, made homes or adapted to the local ground.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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