County: Kildare Site name: Muing East, Tralee
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E0439; 07R0112
Author: Laurence Dunne and Tony Bartlett, Eachtra Archaeological Projects, 3 Lios Na Lohart, Ballyvelly, Tralee, Co. Kerry.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 485674m, N 615623m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.280386, -9.675501
Pre-development testing was carried out at a proposed development site, consisting of a housing estate, as a component part of an impact assessment. The greenfield site is on the north-eastern urban limits of Tralee town, in the townland of Muing East.
Thirteen test-trenches were excavated using a mechanical track machine utilising a 2m-wide flat grading bucket. The total length of trenching was 1550m. The topsoil was heavy and moist, as an impermeable subsoil of yellow/grey mud and clay inhibits percolation to the limestone bedrock. The topsoil was dark-greyish-brown silty clay with inclusions of occasional medium-sized stones. The depth of topsoil across the site varied from 0.2m to 0.45m.
A metal detector C scope CS7 was used to examine the spoil from c. 30% of the trenches, under licence no. 07R0112. No artefacts were found.
No archaeological features or artefacts were encountered during archaeological testing at the site.
