2003:2310 - KILLOWEN, Kerry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kerry Site name: KILLOWEN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1730

Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 492509m, N 571419m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.884569, -9.561459

Testing was undertaken at a proposed residential development site located in the townland of Killowen, Kenmare, Co. Kerry.

There is a standing stone (SMR 93:19) located c. 150m to the west-north-west and a standing stone site (SMR 63:20) c. 50m to the north of the development area. A ruined church is located in a graveyard c. 150m west of the development area.

Eight trenches were excavated by both machine and hand. No features or finds of archaeological interest were uncovered.

7 Cnoc na Gréine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare