County: Kerry Site name: GREAT SKELLIG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 104A:001 Licence number: 93E0195
Author: Edward Bourke, O.P.W.
Site type: Ecclesiastical enclosure
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 424838m, N 560725m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.771395, -10.538216
Excavation in advance of conservation works took place over a four-week period in June and July 1993. The work concentrated on the Monks' Garden Area. Two cuttings were opened, one providing a section from the small cemetery to the outer wall of the garden and a second from the base of the wall of the church to the outer wall of the garden. Both cuttings revealed only 19th-century collapse, though only the eastern cutting could be bottomed for safety reasons. Much of the material dated to the occupation of the site by the builders of the lighthouses though a sherd of Saintonge Green Glaze was found, together with 19th-century material in the collapse.
