2019:049 - MANOR WEST, Kerry
County: Kerry
Site name: MANOR WEST
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE029-165
Licence number: 19E0120
Author: Laurence Dunne
Author/Organisation Address: 3 Lios na Lohart, Ballyvelly, Tralee, Co. Kerry
Site type: Ringfort - unclassified
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
ITM: E 485287m, N 613152m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.258103, -9.680343
Testing took place as a part of an impact assessment undertaken in response to a request for further information with regard to a planning application to construct retail warehouse units at Manor West, Tralee, Co. Kerry. The southern limits of the proposed development contain a denuded monument classified as an enclosure, KE029-165. Three test trenches were undertaken to determine the nature of the enclosure. The excavated results of three cuttings revealed a coherent external ditch feature encompassing the monument establishing it as an Early Medieval ringfort. A 20m development buffer zone was extrapolated from the revealed outermost limits of the ringfort ditch.