2010:382 - Glebe/Lissodeige, Kerry

Pearse Brothers Gaelic Athletic Association received a letter from Kerry County Council requesting further information in relation to a planning application for construction of a clubhouse, a playing field and all associated site works at the proposed development site at Glebe/Lissodeige, Churchill, Tralee. The developers were required to submit an archaeological impact assessment with testing to KCC before an informed decision on the application could be made. The Assessment and testing were undertaken in April and July 2010.
There were no known monuments situated on the proposed development site and no aboveground evidence of previously unknown potential archaeological features were visible at the time of the AIA.
Part of the east side of the northern section of the site abutted the zone of potential for KE028–038 and –03801, a ringfort with possible souterrain, while the east side of the southern half of the site was partially located within the zones of potential for two ringforts also with possible souterrains, KE028–039 and –03901 and KE028–040 and –04001. No trace of these features was visible on the proposed development site and a field boundary composed of an overgrown stone and earth bank separated the proposed development site from the monuments.
Nine test-trenches were excavated across the site in late June 2010, using a mechanical excavator with a grading bucket. All trenches were orientated north–south, were 10–12m apart, 1.8m wide and 5m from the field boundaries. Trench 1, along the eastern boundary, was 25m long and the remaining trenches were 230m long. Two early field boundaries, shown on the first-edition OS sheet, were exposed and three potential archaeological features were tested and found to be of no archaeological significance. No archaeological features or artifacts were recorded.