County: Kerry Site name: The Paddock, Lixnaw
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE016–012 Licence number: 03E1643 ext.
Author: Linda G. Lynch, Aegis Archaeology Ltd, 32 Nicholas Street, King’s Island, Limerick.
Site type: Pits and charcoal-making pit
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 489949m, N 629334m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.404454, -9.617365
Monitoring of Phase 3 of a housing development was carried out in April 2006, under an extension of the licence number used for the monitoring for Phases 1 and 2 of the development. The development area is located in the vicinity of the zone of archaeological potential for a ringfort. Six possible archaeological features were uncovered during the monitoring and were excavated under licence 04E0203 ext. (an extension to the excavation licence used in Phase 1; see No. 899 below).
