County: Kerry Site name: KILLOUGHANE CHURCH, Killoughane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 65:58 Licence number: 98E0309 and ext.
Author: Isabel Bennett
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 483511m, N 591543m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.063581, -9.698932
Archaeological excavation took place over two days, 27 July and 24 August 1998, at the proposed siting of a septic tank and an extension to an existing dwelling-house in a field immediately to the east of the remains of Killoughane medieval church, Killoughane, Beaufort, Co. Kerry. The developer had been refused planning permission for a new house on this site but was now proposing to apply for permission to extend slightly the existing dwelling, subject to the archaeological resolution of any areas to be disturbed.
Initially it was proposed that any areas to be disturbed be hand-excavated. The area of the proposed extension (5.6m east-west by 2.6m) was investigated. The subsoil was reached at an average depth of 0.4m, and nothing of archaeological significance was found.
Owing to the archaeologically sterile nature of this portion of the site, permission to use a mechanical digger to excavate the septic tank area, which was to be c. 11.6m to the south of the south-eastern corner of the existing house and c. 20m to the east of the site of the medieval church, was obtained. Subsoil was encountered here at an average depth of 0.3m. Nothing of archaeological significance was encountered.
Glen Fahan, Ventry, Tralee, Co. Kerry
