2017:589 - KILLOWEN, Kerry
County: Kerry
Site name: KILLOWEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 17E0586
Author: Laurence Dunne
Author/Organisation Address: 3 Lios Na Lohart, Ballyvelly, Tralee, Co. Kerry
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 492862m, N 571690m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.887072, -9.556417
Pre-development testing was undertaken with regard to a planning application to construct an inert waste facility on a 1.13ha site at Killowen, c. 2km north-east of Kenmare, Co. Kerry. A series of nine 1.8m wide test trenches (T1–T9) extended for a total of c.1000 linear meters were excavated across the footprint of the proposed development. Topsoil comprised entirely of mid-brown peat that survived in depths between a maximum of 0.6m to a minimum of 0.2m. The peat overlay natural material of impermeable grey and yellowish grey clay. Nothing of an archaeological nature was noted within any of the test trenches.