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2024:516 - Caher East, Kenmare, Kerry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Kerry

Site name: Caher East, Kenmare

Sites and Monuments Record No.: KE093-008---- (souterrain).

Licence number: 24E0415

Author: Frank Coyne

Site type: Vicinity of KE093-008---- (souterrain).

Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)

ITM: E 496108m, N 573063m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.900024, -9.509693

The site comprised an open field under grass, with access along an existing road through a farmyard. Part of this access road runs across the location of a souterrain (KE093-008----). A concrete road was constructed across part of this souterrain in 1987. No works are proposed to this access road.

Six trenches were excavated across the subject site. No archaeological features were encountered The spoil from the trenches was metal detected (licence no. 24R0221). No artefacts were recovered.


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