County: Kerry Site name: Ballygarran
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 12E0359
Author: Laurence Dunne
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 478679m, N 615246m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.275499, -9.777842
Excavations were undertaken at Ballygarran, Spa, Tralee, Co. Kerry with regard to a planning application to construct a cricket pitch. The 1.92ha site is partially within the zone of notification of ringfort KE028-087. The site slopes directly to the northern shore of Tralee Bay, is waterlogged and in a general very poor condition. A series of thirteen test trenches at 10m intervals and totalling 1,367m in length, were excavated across the site. No archaeological features or artefacts were recorded.
Laurence Dunne Archaeology, 3, Lios Na Lohart, Ballyvelly, Tralee, Co. Kerry.
