County: Kerry Site name: CLOON, Tralee
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0284
Author: Jacinta Kiely, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 484506m, N 614103m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.266488, -9.692101
Test-trenching and monitoring of ground disturbance works were undertaken on the northern bank of the River Lee, in Tralee, to comply with a planning condition. The site covers an area of c. 18 acres and is bounded by the River Lee to the south and Dan Spring Road to the north. It is south of the zone of archaeological potential for the town.
A possible circular enclosure was identified at the eastern end of the site from an aerial photograph. Two intersecting trenches, 38m by 2m and 45m by 2m, were excavated through the area of the possible enclosure. Modern rubbish overlay the clay subsoil. No archaeological stratigraphy was recorded in the trenches, and no artefacts were recovered. The circular enclosure noted on the aerial photograph is not archaeological in nature. It may have been formed by tethered horses.
Topsoil-stripping in the area of the development site was monitored. The site was then infilled with trunking, and the foundations etc. will be excavated through the trunking. A layer of peat underlay the sod and overlay the clay subsoil. The peat varied in depth from 1m to 3m.
No archaeological stratigraphy was recorded in any of the trenches, and no artefacts were recovered.
Clover Hill, Mallow, Co. Cork
