County: Kerry Site name: Leitrim West
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 17E0371
Author: Laurence Dunne
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 505359m, N 641244m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.514348, -9.394360
Test excavation was undertaken with regard to a planning application to construct a dwelling house at Leitrim West, Moyvane, Co. Kerry. A series of five test trenches (T1-T5), extending for a total length of 110m, were excavated. The test trenches were opened with a back-acting track machine using a 1.8m wide flat grading bucket on the footprint of the proposed domestic dwelling house and internal road accessways. The topsoil consisted of blackish-brown peat with an average depth 0.2-0.25m. Several early modern stone-lined drains and terracotta drains were noted during the testing. Nothing of archaeological interest was found.
3 Lios Na Lohart, Ballyvelly, Tralee, Co. Kerry
