County: Kerry Site name: KILLEEN, Tralee
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0335
Author: Jacinta Kiely, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: House - 17th century
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 484698m, N 616309m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.286353, -9.690044
Monitoring of ground disturbance aspects of the first phase of a housing development in the townland of Killeen, to the north of Tralee town, was undertaken to comply with a planning condition. The development site consists of disused parkland. To the immediate south of the area are the relict remains of a 17th-century estate house, built by a Cromwellian named Bateman.
All ground disturbance associated with the excavation of Access Roads B and D and House Sites 46–74 was monitored. An area of cobbling, 5.3m north-south by 3.4m, was recorded 3.3m north-east of the entrance. A sherd of blackware was associated with the cobbles. A flint scraper was recovered from the topsoil.
Two test-trenches, measuring 18m and 14.5m, were excavated on the line of the boundary wall that will separate the modern housing estate from the remains of the 17th-century house. The topsoil overlay a yellow/brown, silty clay in both. No archaeological stratigraphy was recorded in the trenches.
Clover Hill, Mallow, Co. Cork
