County: Kerry Site name: Banogue South 2 (An Bhánóg Theas 2)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E004665
Author: Bruce Sutton IAC Ltd
Site type: Medieval charcoal-production kiln
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 454365m, N 601445m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.145633, -10.127962
Stage (iii) archaeological excavation at An Bhánóg Theas 2 (Ministerial Direction No.: A070) was undertaken in advance of the N86 Lispole to Ballynasare Lower & Ballygarret to Camp Road Improvement Scheme in County Kerry. All works were funded by Transport Infrastructure Ireland. An Bhánóg Theas 2 consisted of a charcoal-production kiln and the remains of a ridge and furrow agricultural system.
A copy of the final excavation report has been published in the TII Digital Heritage Collections on the Digital Repository of Ireland. It can be accessed with this link https://doi.org/10.7486/DRI.j960fn71x.
A report on the excavations undertaken on this road scheme has been published: Sutton, B. (2020) ‘Transience and Permanency – Four Thousand years of settlement on the Dingle Peninsula: Archaeological Excavations near Lispole and Camp in advance of the N86 Road Scheme (2015-2016)’. Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, Series 2, Vol 19 (2019), pg. 35–62 (https://www.kerryhistory.ie/product/series-2-vol-19-2019/).
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