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In pasture on the S side of the road leading W out of Ballyhale village. A souterrain in a hollow near a stream was noted during a field inspection in 1989. A large capstone with other smaller stones around it was described and the passage appeared to extend NW-SE but was inaccessible. Test-trenching in the same area in 2007 in advance of a proposed housing scheme (Licence no. 07E0524) revealed two subterranean features comprising boulder and sandstone walls topped with flatter, well-laid capstones at a depth of 1.8m beneath the present ground surface. Although the construction is of the style associated with souterrains the dimensions were very small (Wth 0.6m; H 0.6m). The passages may have been associated with an adjacent 19th century mill. (Henry 2007; Henry 2010, 232, no. 874)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 5 November 2013
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