County: Kerry Site name: Killeen, Tralee
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E1189
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 484495m, N 616762m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.290380, -9.693173
Test-trenches as a component part of an impact assessment were excavated at a proposed development site on the northern outskirts of Tralee town and straddling the urban/rural boundaries. A track machine with a 2m-wide flat grading bucket incrementally excavated six trenches. The topsoil was a mid- to dark-brown silty clay with an average depth of 0.4m. The subsoil was an orangish-yellow silty clay, of soft to moderate compaction, with occasional angular and sub-angular stone inclusions.
Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded within the trenches.
