County: Kerry Site name: KNOCKNACUIG, Tralee
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0608
Author: Jacinta Kiely, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 481984m, N 614629m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.270678, -9.729209
Monitoring of all ground disturbance aspects of the first phase of a housing development in the townland of Knocknacuig, to the west of Tralee town, was undertaken to comply with a planning condition. The site is to the east of Lohercannan hillfort, SMR 29:112, and to the north of an enclosure, SMR 29:117. Ground disturbance aspects were monitored in the area of Courtyard A, House Sites 1-14, and Courtyard B, House Sites 1–14.
A flint scraper was recovered from the topsoil. Four areas of stratigraphy were investigated. They were geological in nature. There are a number of limestone sinkholes in the area of the site.
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