Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Mounthawk, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mounthawk
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KE029-237003-
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The National Monuments Service's description
'Monitoring of the development of a new housing estate on the western suburbs of Tralee was undertaken (Excavation No: 96E390) and a number of potential archaeological findspots were identified........ Two large pits, Cl4 [KE029-237003-] and C46 [KE029-237004-], were located adjacent to the cremations [KE029-237001-, KE029-237002-]. They were separated by a narrow saddle of natural material which had been cut by an earlier, narrow slot-trench. The south-west face of C46 was lined with burnt wood. Sandstone fragments, which included a broken saddle quern formed part of the burnt fill of the pit.'
Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008
Date of upload: 10 July 2012