2020:028 - DOOCARRIG BEG, Kerry
County: Kerry
Site name: DOOCARRIG BEG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 16E0535 ext.
Author: Margaret McCarthy, ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSULTANT
Author/Organisation Address: Rostellan, Midleton, Co. Cork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 511468m, N 588552m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.041871, -9.290551
A pre-planning test excavation was undertaken at Doocarrig Beg, Barraduff in advance of a proposed extension to an existing sand and gravel quarry. The nearest recorded monuments, a ringfort (KE068-029), a stone row (KE068-110) and a standing stone row (KE068-111), are located over 1km from the quarry.
Fourteen test trenches were excavated to a level below the natural boulder clay and no features or finds of archaeological merit were uncovered. A field boundary, indicated on the 1st and 2nd editions of OS map, was exposed in Trench 6 close to the south-east edge of the quarry face.