County: Kerry Site name: TRALEE: 4 Day Place
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 29:119 Licence number: 00E0639 ext.
Author: Laurence Dunne, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: Coach house
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 483356m, N 614378m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.268716, -9.709033
Testing was undertaken at the rear of 4 Day Place, Tralee, Co. Kerry. The development site was within the zone of archaeological potential of Tralee. Day Place, built by Judge Robert Day in 1805, is a very fine Georgian terrace of ten houses. It was built beside the old medieval port of Tralee, formerly situated at Prince’s Quay. The construction of Day Place most likely severely impinged on earlier medieval deposits. However, the ground to the rear rose considerably, and the likelihood of encountering archaeological layers was high. Previous testing (Excavations 2001, No. 591, 01E0639) uncovered midden material, and further testing was required.
Two trenches, measuring 13m by 1.3m, were opened by mechanical excavator. The foundations of early 19th-century walls (0.5m wide), loose sandstone cobbling and the remains of a stone slab floor, which relate to the construction of a coachhouse and ancillary buildings, were noted. These features overlay a thick (1.2m) layer of loose domestic dumped fill of early modern date.
3 Canal Place, Tralee, Co. Kerry
