2016:022 - Skellig Michael, Kerry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kerry Site name: Skellig Michael

Sites and Monuments Record No.: None Licence number: C418, E4663

Author: Alan R. Hayden

Site type: early 19th-century roadway

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 424835m, N 560646m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.770682, -10.538230

A small excavation was undertaken on the side of the roadway at the east side of Cross Cove to facilitate the rebuilding of a section of the parapet wall of the early 19th-century Lighthouse Roadway damaged by a rockfall. Nothing of archaeological interest was encountered.

haydenar@eircom.net