County: Kerry Site name: CHURCH ISLAND, Ballycarbery West
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE079-032001 Licence number: 03E1518
Author: Alan Hayden, Archaeological Projects Ltd.
Site type: Ecclesiastical enclosure
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
ITM: E 443013m, N 578589m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.937238, -10.283205
A small area was excavated in the north-west quarter of the stone oratory at the west side of the island in September 2003, to answer a number of questions and to allow conservation work to proceed on the north and west walls of the oratory. Several human burials pre-dating the oratory were uncovered. Some were recorded but not removed by the previous excavator of the site, M.J. O’Kelly. They will be used to provide a terminus post quem for the stone oratory, which was originally excavated before 14C dating was possible in Ireland.
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