County: Kerry Site name: MUINGNAMINNANE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E0175 ext.
Author: Linda Lynch, Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 495372m, N 617452m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.298756, -9.533998
Monitoring took place at the North Kerry Landfill during the opening of new cells (Cells 11 and 12) for the expansion of the facility. The current works constitute Phase 6 of the development of the site. The land in the general area consists primarily of blanket bog, and the area has been extensively forested in recent years. The current cells are in an area of failed commercial forestry.
The peat cover in the areas of the cells opened varied from 2.2m to 3.2m deep. It consisted of a fibrous brown peat, built up in distinctive layers (visible as lighter and darker bands) averaging 0.25m thick. In Cell 11 the peat rested on a grey gravel, which in places overlay a yellow clay. In Cell 12 the peat overlay a compact, grey/light brown, silty clay, averaging 0.2m deep, which overlay a sterile, blue/ grey, stony clay. Occasional outcrops of shale bedrock were visible 1.5m underneath this grey clay. Veins of a natural black layer were evident in the bedrock.
Occasional pieces of wood, both tree trunks and extensive root systems, were recovered from the peat layer, as well as fragments of smaller roots systems. These are unrelated to the modern commercial phase of forestry in the area and are evidence of ancient trees on the site. Nothing of archaeological significance was observed during monitoring.
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