County: Kerry Site name: KILLERISK, Tralee
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0574
Author: Frank Coyne, Aegis Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Structure
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 484855m, N 613518m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.261301, -9.686793
Thirty-three trenches were excavated by machine to test the proposed development area in advance of the construction of a community nursing unit. In the south-west corner of the field a series of post-holes and slot-trench of a small circular structure, 4m in diameter, were uncovered. A quartz crystal was recovered from the uppermost fill of the slot-trench, as well as a quantity of charcoal, suggesting that the structure may have burnt down. A number of cultivation furrows of uncertain age were also identified nearby. This circular structure/house may be prehistoric in date, because of its proximity to a nearby limestone reef. Many of these reefs in the Lee Valley have produced evidence of prehistoric activity, both habitation and ritual.
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