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
- KE029-239----
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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........Further archaeological activity was located 20m north-west of the cremations [KE029-237001-, KE029-237002-] and included a large pit at the edge of a spread of white clay. The base and sides of the pit were burnt. The fill included moderate to frequent amounts of burnt sandstone fragments; no other artefacts were recovered from it.'
Description from ‘The Prehistoric Settlement of the Lee Valley, Tralee, Co. Kerry; A Landscape Perspective’ by Michael Connolly. PhD Thesis UCC 2008