County: Kerry Site name: Beheenagh Bridge
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE068-120 Licence number: 18E0180
Author: Tony Bartlett
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 509705m, N 590974m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.063352, -9.316883
Testing was undertaken on behalf of Transport Infrastructure Ireland as part of Stage (i) Test Excavation & Survey Services for the proposed Kerry, Cork and Clare Bridge Rehabilitation Scheme in advance of works on the N72 Beheenagh Bridge near Barraduff in Co. Kerry. Beheenagh Bridge is a Recorded Monument (KE068-120); however, it is not scheduled for inclusion in the next revision of the Record of Monuments and Places.
A total of three test trenches with a total accumulated length of 60 linear metres were excavated in greenfield areas in the environs of Beheenagh Bridge, in the townlands of Readrinagh and Kilquane. The trenches were 1.8 m wide and excavated by a 13-tonne track machine utilising a flat grading bucket, down to the top of the underlying natural subsoil. No archaeological features, deposits or artefacts were encountered in any of the three trenches.
Archaeological Management Solutions Ltd, Unit 1, Hector Street Mills, Kilrush, Co. Clare
