2014:504 - DERREEN, Kerry
County: Kerry
Site name: DERREEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 14E0152
Author: Laurence Dunne
Author/Organisation Address: 3 Lios na Lohart, Ballyvelly, Tralee
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 496156m, N 592356m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.073397, -9.514835
Test excavations were undertaken in advance of a planning application to construct a new National Sports Arena at Derreen, Killarney, Co. Kerry. The proposed development site is situated on level low-lying ground on the northern limits of the urban extent of Killarney town. Four linear test trenches, (T1-T4), were opened that revealed that the site was previously a local authority dumpsite. Consequently, the trenches were not fully completed.