2021:142 - BALLINTLEAVE COMMONS, Kerry
County: Kerry
Site name: BALLINTLEAVE COMMONS
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 21E0569
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 469581m, N 593576m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.078740, -9.902759
Archaeological testing was undertaken at Ballintleave Commons, Dooks Mountain, Glenbeigh, Co. Kerry in response to a planning application to construct a wintering unit for cattle, associated underground slurry tanks, and fodder sheds.
Four test trenches (T1-T4), oriented north-east/south-west, with a total length of 200m, were opened across the footprint area of the proposed cattle wintering unit. Test trenches were all stratigraphicaly similar comprising of a thin layer of peaty vegetation to a depth of 0.1–0.2m. This overlays sterile light orange/yellow silty sandy natural subsoil. Nothing of an archaeological nature was noted.