2018:047 - BEHEENAGH BRIDGE, Kerry
County: Kerry
Site name: BEHEENAGH BRIDGE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE068-120
Licence number: 18E0180
Author: Tony Bartlett, Archaeological Management Solutions Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 1, Hector Street Mills, Kilrush, Co. Clare
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
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.
