2004:0743 - DROM, Kerry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kerry Site name: DROM

Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE068-016 Licence number: 04E1635

Author: Linda Hegarty, Headland Archaeology Ltd.

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 508389m, N 588668m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.042413, -9.335452

Testing was undertaken as part of a planning application. The proposed house was located within the zone of archaeological potential surrounding a ringfort. Three test-trenches totalling 68m in length were excavated. The topsoil was grey-brown silty clay with an average depth of 0.28m. The subsoil was orange/grey silty clay. No features of archaeological significance were identified.

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