County: Kerry Site name: DINGLE: The Mall
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E1068
Author: Isabel Bennett
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 444733m, N 601057m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.139530, -10.268399
This proposed development site lay mainly outside the constraint area for the medieval town of Dingle, KE043–224. Prior to excavation it had been cleared of dense growth of Japanese knotweed, which exposed the fact that it had been used as a dumping ground for car parts and other waste for a considerable period of time. An impact assessment, including testing, was required. This took place in November.
The five trenches dug on site varied in length from 100m to 32m; all were 1.5m wide. The level of dumped material was up to 1m deep in places, but it was usually easy to make out where the original ground level was below this. This generally consisted of c. 0.25 of rotted organic material/sod over a further 0.3m of topsoil before the orange/yellow subsoil was reached. Apart from a small number of sherds of 19th/20th-century pottery, all of the ‘finds’ related to the more recently dumped material. Nothing of archaeological significance was found at the site.
Glen Fahan, Ventry, Tralee, Co. Kerry
