EXCAVATIONS AT KILLYLANE , COUNTY ANTRIM

souterrains, mill dams, and a reported church site, together with a curvilinear settlement site nearby, both of which may belong to the Early Christian period. Overlying theformer is afield system defined by earthen banks enclosing broad cultivation ridges and houses. Excavation indicated an abandonment date in the late 18th century. Finally the modern field system of neat stone walls and farm buildings was dated by cartographic and dendrochronological evidence to the early 19th century.