County: Kerry Site name: BALLAHACOMMANE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE067-042, KE067-055 and KE067-092001 Licence number: 00E0016 ext.
Author: John O’Connor, for Archaeological Development Services Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 502403m, N 590446m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.057370, -9.423192
Monitoring of Phase 7 of the groundworks at Ballahacommane, Killarney, Co. Kerry, was carried out from 6 to 20 August 2003. The entire site consists of c. 100 acres of land, much of which is covered by blanket bog. The development involves the phased clearance and excavation of a sand and gravel quarry.
Although no standing archaeological features have been located on the site in the previous phases of archaeological monitoring by Damian Finn and Ruth Elliott (Excavations 2000, No. 408; 2001, No. 540; 2002, Nos 765–6), a number of Bronze Age sites are known in the immediate vicinity of the quarry, increasing the likelihood that some archaeological features remain.
Phase 7 of the development involved the construction of a boundary bank along the southern limit of the site and topsoil clearance of approximately two acres of land in Area 2. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered as a result of this phase of the works.
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