2006:883 - GULLAUN WEST, Kerry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kerry Site name: GULLAUN WEST

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0127

Author: Kate Taylor, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd.

Site type: Road - road/trackway

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

ITM: E 511369m, N 595907m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.107953, -9.293900

Monitoring of the excavation of a water reservoir on the Firies–Scartaglin regional water supply scheme, Southern Section, Part B, revealed a pair of parallel ditches that defined a boreen. The boreen was orientated from north-west to south-east, was 4.5m wide (including the ditches) and was exposed for a length of 52m. Post-medieval agricultural furrows were also recorded.

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