2015:004 - BALLYBUNION CASTLE, Kerry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kerry

Site name: BALLYBUNION CASTLE

Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE004-031

Licence number: C000652

Author: Michael Connolly, Kerry County Council

Author/Organisation Address: Ratass, Tralee, Co. Kerry

Site type: Castle - tower house and souterrain

Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)

ITM: E 486137m, N 641389m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.511984, -9.677479

Conservation works took place on the masonry remains of Ballybunion Castle and repairs to the subsiding cliff face around a souterrain opening on the southern side of the promontory. Old cement-based mortars on the castle were removed and replaced with lime-based mortar (pointing). The exposed wall core was also flaunched and strengthened. No previously unrecorded archaeological features or strata were encountered during the course of the works