2019:277 - AGHANAGRAN LOWER, AGHANAGRAN MIDDLE & BALLYLINE WEST, Kerry
County: Kerry
Site name: AGHANAGRAN LOWER, AGHANAGRAN MIDDLE & BALLYLINE WEST
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 17E0649
Author: Laurence Dunne
Author/Organisation Address: 3 Lios na Lohart, Ballyvelly, Tralee, Co. Kerry
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 498227m, N 643491m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.533253, -9.500086
Testing was undertaken with regard to a planning application to construct a six-turbine windfarm near Ballylongford, Co. Kerry. The works took place in early June in 2019 and comprised the excavation of twenty-eight 2m wide test trenches with a total length of c.1500m. A fulacht fiadh, with maximum exposed dimensions of 5m (east-west) x 6m and a depth of 0.3m, (established by an exploratory test box) was recorded in test trench T26 (centre point ITM coordinates: E 498227, N 643491). Nothing of archaeological interest was recorded in any of the other trenches and no artefacts were recovered during testing.