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2013:383 - BALLYGARRAN, Kerry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

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.


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