2013:383 - BALLYGARRAN, Kerry
County: Kerry
Site name: BALLYGARRAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 12E0359
Author: Laurence Dunne, Laurence Dunne Archaeology
Author/Organisation Address: 3, Lios Na Lohart, Ballyvelly, Tralee, Co. Kerry
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
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.