County: Kerry Site name: Tawlaght
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0020
Author: Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates, 7 Cnoc Na Greine Square, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 473477m, N 616253m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.283374, -9.854400
Testing was undertaken in January in compliance with a request for further information pertaining to a proposed residential development. The site is located in the townland of Tawlaght, to the north-east of the village of Fenit.
There is a ringfort with souterrain (KE028–028) located a minimum of c. 65m to the north-north-east of the northern-eastern corner of the subject development lands. In addition, excavation undertaken at a site to the immediate north by Eachtra Archaeological Projects in 1995 uncovered a number of pits, post-holes, slot-trenches and a trough (Area 1), two sub-oval pits (Area 2) and a shell midden (Area 3). Furthermore, a medieval trading token made of bone was recovered in Tawlaght in 1945 (L. Dunne, pers. comm.).
A total of fifteen trenches of varying lengths and orientations were excavated by machine within the site. Nothing of archaeological interest was uncovered during the course of such works.
