2015:391 - COOLGARRIV, Kerry
County: Kerry
Site name: COOLGARRIV
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE058-515 & KE058-514
Licence number: None
Author: Tony Miller
Author/Organisation Address: Tooreen, Dunmanway, Co. Cork
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 495810m, N 593602m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.084529, -9.520261
As a condition for pre-afforestation approval at Coolgarriv, Killarney monitoring of the trench and mounding was required. A c.5ha area was monitored, a large level field of pasture with a stream along the western boundary and the Killarney to Tralee road on the eastern. In the western half of the field, two different areas of heat-fractured stone and charcoal-rich soil were found surviving to a depth of 0.4m. In both cases machine work was stopped and a minimum 20m buffer zone was established.
