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2015:444 - DROMKEEN EAST, Kerry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kerry

Site name: DROMKEEN EAST

Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE015-013

Licence number: 15E0104

Author: Laurence Dunne

Author/Organisation Address: 3 Lios na Lohart, Ballyvelly, Tralee

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 483133m, N 630977m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.417797, -9.718077

Test excavations were undertaken at Dromkeen East, Causeway, Co. Kerry with regard to a planning application, to construct a single house. A section of the northern limits of the proposed development site is situated within the zone of notification of Blackpool Ringfort, KE015-013. A series of five linear north-west/south-east running test trenches (T1–T5), 1.5m in width, were excavated across the footprint of the site with negative results.


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