2020:167 - Tomies West & Gortadirra, Kerry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kerry Site name: Tomies West & Gortadirra

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 20E0514

Author: Laurence Dunne

Site type: Fulacht fiadh and trough

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 489531m, N 590026m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.051180, -9.610685

Monitoring of groundworks at Tomies West & Gortadirra Townlands, Killarney, Co. Kerry was undertaken in August and September 2020. During the monitoring one area of archaeological interest consisting of a trough, fulacht fiadh and a spread was recorded. Subsequent excavation of the trough and the spread was undertaken at the end of September 2020. No artefacts were recovered during the monitoring and subsequent excavation.

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