2012:310 - GLANBANE, Kerry
County: Kerry
Site name: GLANBANE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE039-065`
Licence number: 12E144
Author: William O’Brien
Site type: Hillfort
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 492286m, N 608523m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.217925, -9.576389
Sample excavation was conducted in July 2012 at a prehistoric hillfort in Glanbane, Co. Kerry. This involved trenching the inner and outer enclosing elements to record details of form and construction. The inner enclosure was surrounded by a rock-cut ditch with a stone-faced internal bank. A similar arrangement was discovered around the outer enclosure. Samples were recovered for radiocarbon dating. There are no artefacts or other occupation-related finds from the excavation.