2003:2278 - FORESHORE, Caherciveen, Kerry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kerry Site name: FORESHORE, Caherciveen

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1419

Author: Laurence Dunne, Eachtra Archaeological Projects

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 447182m, N 579860m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.949815, -10.223186

Test-trenches were excavated on the footprint of a development site on the foreshore at Caherciveen. The topsoil was a sandy clay with shale stones. The natural subsoil was a yellow–orange clay. Shale bedrock was exposed in places. No archaeological stratigraphy was encountered.

3 Canal Place, Tralee, Co. Kerry