County: Kerry Site name: DINGLE: Green St (rear)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 43:224 (Dingle town) Licence number: —
Author: Isabel Bennett
Site type: Town
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 444283m, N 601056m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.139395, -10.274965
Seven test pits were opened in this site at the rear of a premises at the south-western side of Green St, as excavation was a condition prior to the granting of planning permission for development there. The site lies at least 100m outside the probable boundary of the 16th-century town wall, but is quite close to the sea-front.
The pits produced evidence for much of the recent activity on the site (as a coal-yard, gardens, shed, foundations, etc.), but no evidence for medieval activity. Brick fragments were found in the lowest layer in 3 of the pits with the most complicated stratigraphy, indicating that activity on the site dates from the early modern period. As the site is to the rear of the street front, it is probable that, even if the frontage has been occupied from an earlier period (and this is unproven), little occupation activity would have taken place at the rear.
Glen Fahan, Ventry, Tralee, Co. Kerry
