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2016:022 - SKELLIG MICHAEL, Kerry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kerry

Site name: SKELLIG MICHAEL

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: C418, E4663

Author: Alan R. Hayden

Author/Organisation Address: haydenar@eircom.net

Site type: Road - road/trackway

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

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.


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