County: Kerry Site name: Lissatinnig
Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE081-025 Licence number: 24E0129
Author: Katarzyna Labaj
Site type: Ditch of ringfort
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 462841m, N 576743m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.925893, -9.994295
Licensed archaeological testing at Lissatinnig, Mastergeehy, Co. Kerry was undertaken in February 2024. A recorded monument, KE081-025, classified as a ringfort, abuts the north-west limits of the proposed development site. A series of nine test trenches (T1-T9) extending for c.250m were opened across the site using a 3-ton mini digger with a flat 1m wide grading bucket. The three radial trenches (T1-T3) were excavated in the immediate vicinity of ringfort to establish its subsurface outermost limits. Evidence of the external ditch of the ringfort was found in T1 and T3 and a possible bowl furnace was also recorded in T1 a little to the east of outer limits of the ditch. Nothing of archaeological interest was recorded in any other trenches and no artefacts were recovered during testing.
195 Shanakill, Tralee, Co. Kerry
