County: Kerry Site name: DROMIN, LISTOWEL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0111
Author: Laurence Dunne and Tony Bartlett, Eachtra Archaeological Projects, 3, Lios na Lohart, Ballyvelly, Tralee, Co. Kerry.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 499591m, N 635188m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.458909, -9.477486
Test excavations were carried out in February 2005 as part of an impact assessment relating to a planning application to construct a housing development at Dromin, Listowel. Ten test-trenches were excavated by a mechanical digger using a 1.5m-wide flat ditching bucket on the footprint of the houses and associated access roads. Natural subsoil was reached beneath an average 0.35m of dark-brown silty loam topsoil. The subsoil was a mottled mid-yellow/orange sandy clay with moderate small to medium sub-angular and sub-rounded sandstones throughout. No artefacts or deposits were encountered in any of the trenches.
