County: Kerry Site name: Listowel
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0519
Author: Laurence Dunne and Karen Buckley, 3 Lios Na Lohart, Ballyvelly, Tralee, Co. Kerry.
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 498932m, N 613553m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.264385, -9.480665
Monitoring was undertaken of a major infrastructural project on behalf of Kerry County Council within Listowel town. The Kerry regional broadband project will initially construct metropolitan area rings, designed for multiple operator use, in four urban locations: Castleisland, Killarney, Listowel and Tralee. The proposed broadband infrastructure consists of four-way 110mm telecoms ducting, sub-ducts, fibres, chambers, fibre management equipment, co-location units, connections and all associated ancillary works. The trench for the four-way ducting was generally 450mm wide with a maximum depth of 1m. The route of the duct was predominantly along public roads, with some routing along footways and grassed areas.
The town is not listed as a recorded monument, nor is it included in the Urban Archaeology Survey of Kerry. The proposed trench route for the four-way ducting will be excavated within the existing street system through the constraint zone of KE10–059 and KE010–061, classified as a castle and church respectively.
Test cuttings were opened in tandem with the opening of the trench for the broadband infrastructure within the constraint zones of the monuments described above. Rubble infill and material associated with road works were recorded within the trenches in the two constraint zones. Nothing of archaeological interest was recorded within the trench.
Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded within the infrastructural trenches opened throughout Listowel town.
