County: Kerry Site name: TRALEE: 5 Day Place
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 29:119 Licence number: 01E0640 ext.
Author: Jacinta Kiely, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: Town
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 483368m, N 614351m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.268476, -9.708848
Test-trenches were excavated at the rear of 5 Day Place, Tralee. The site was within the zone of archaeological potential of Tralee. Day Place is a terrace of Georgian houses. It is not marked on Smith’s map of Tralee (1756) but is on both the first-and second-edition OS maps. Both the Denny estate map of Tralee (1877) and the Parliamentary Boundary map (1878) show buildings to the rear of 5 Day Place. These consist of what appears to be an annexe to the main house (which is still in existence), an arrangement of outbuildings and a small courtyard similar to the present layout. These buildings may have functioned as a coachhouse for the main residence.
Two trenches were excavated at the rear of the site to a depth of 1.65m (2.824m OD) and 2.2m (2.7502m OD), exposing the natural subsoil. Two walls, floor levels and rubble deposits were recorded. These are the remains of the 19th-century buildings indicated on the Tralee Parliamentary Boundary map (1878). No material or features of an earlier date were recorded. Testing of the adjacent site at 4 Day Place by Laurence Dunne (No. 841, Excavations 2002) produced similar results.
3 Canal Place, Tralee, Co. Kerry
