County: Kerry Site name: 22 Denny Street, Tralee
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE029–119 Licence number: 06E0437
Author: Laurence Dunne and Karen Buckley, Eachtra Archaeological Projects, 3 Lios na Lohart, Ballyvelly, Tralee, Co. Kerry.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 483605m, N 614323m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.268274, -9.705369
Three small test cuttings were opened at a proposed development site at 22 Denny Street, Tralee, Co. Kerry, as a constituent part of an overall archaeological impact assessment. The site is within the medieval zone of Tralee.
Two trenches were excavated within a 19th-century coach-house that forms part of the rear curtilage of a listed protected structure. Very little of the original coach-house survives and what does remain has no architectural or cultural value, having been assimilated into two separate apartment dwellings in the 1980s. The third trench was excavated in an open garden area of the curtilage situated between the listed building and the coach-house.
Trenches 1 and 2 had identical stratigraphy. Concrete with a thickness of 0.08m overlay rubble overburden consisting of gravel, broken red bricks and ex situ sandstone cobbles with an average depth of 0.21m. Beneath this layer a 0.13m-deep layer of disturbed in situ sandstone cobbling was encountered. On top of and within the cobbling, occasional 19th-century white-glazed ceramics were retrieved. Underlying the cobbling was 0.2m of mottled dark-yellow/grey silty clay. This stratigraphy is consistent with a 19th-century date and indicates contemporary chronology with the coach-house.
Trench 3, excavated in the rear garden, contained the same overburden rubble as Trenches 1 and 2, with an average depth of 0.3m, which overlay a dark-brown silty loam, 0.5m in depth, with frequent large limestones. The subsoil was identical in all trenches, being a mottled yellow/brown clay.
Nothing of archaeological significance was encountered.
