County: Kerry Site name: LISTOWEL: Clievragh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 10:57 Licence number: 02E1545
Author: Simon Ó Faoláin, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 498722m, N 634548m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.453000, -9.490071
An application for planning permission was made for the construction of commercial units. An archaeological impact assessment was required, as part of the development lay within the zone of potential of a ringfort site. Testing was carried out on 9 October 2002. Four trenches, 45–50m long and 1.8m wide, were excavated by a mechanical excavator with flat bucket in the area immediately west of the factory premises in the southern part of the field. They were all aligned north–south, with a space of c. 5m between them. All were excavated to subsoil. The topsoil was a mid-brown, clayey silt and was very thin (<0.2m), coming down onto a grey/brown clay subsoil. A considerable quantity of modern rubbish and industrial waste from the factory was present in the soil. No archaeological features or artefacts were encountered.
3 Canal Place, Tralee, Co. Kerry
