County: Kerry Site name: CLOCH AN OIGAIR, (Carrigeendaniel Townland), Mount Hawk, Tralee
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0456 ext.
Author: Isabel Bennett
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 482418m, N 615496m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.278558, -9.723161
Unlicensed monitoring of an access road initially took place on this site during March 1997, and licensed monitoring of further road construction took place during December 1997. Nothing of archaeological interest was noted during either exercise. Further monitoring of another road through the as yet undeveloped portion of the site, now to be known as Cloch An Oigair (the previously developed area now being known as Árd na Sídhe), was undertaken in 1998.
As a condition of the planning approval granted to the developer it was required that an archaeologist monitor ground disturbance aspects of the proposed development at the time of construction, owing to proximity to SMR site Nos 29:111, 114, 115 and 116 (three enclosures and a standing stone), which lie at least 250m to the south of the development, with the Tralee Livestock Mart situated inbetween.
Soil-stripping and the laying of a foundation for the road took place on 28 September 1998. Nothing of archaeological significance was noted. An initial 0.1m of topsoil was stripped, and the only finds noted were a small number of sherds of modern pottery and clear glass. The second level of stripping was down into the undisturbed natural (or limestone bedrock in the southern third of the area).
The maximum depth of the soil removed was 0.45m, although in places where the limestone bedrock was close to the surface it was as little as 0.2m. Topsoil was generally 0.35m deep above the yellow natural.
Glen Fahan, Ventry, Tralee, Co. Kerry
