2000:0426 - COOLGARRIV, Kerry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kerry Site name: COOLGARRIV

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0919

Author: Jacinta Kiely, Eachtra Archaeological Projects

Site type: Fulacht fia

Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)

ITM: E 495472m, N 592907m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.078228, -9.524969

Monitoring of the excavation of land drains and the removal of topsoil from the site of a housing development in Coolgarriv was undertaken to comply with a planning condition. A ringfort, SMR 66:32, is sited to the north-west of the site. Two possible fulachta fiadh were recorded in the southern portion of the development site. The excavation of these sites will take place in spring 2001.

Clover Hill, Mallow, Co. Cork