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19th-century cottage excavation on the N69 Listowel Bypass

In the summer of 2019 archaeologists from Archaeological Management Solutions investigated the route of the N69 Listowel Bypass on behalf of Kerry County Council prior to the commencement of road construction. This is a process that happens in advance of construction of all national road projects in Ireland. The archaeological excavations were overseen by archaeologists from Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) and were carried out in accordance with Ministerial Directions issued by the National Monuments Service of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. One of the most interesting sites investigated was the remains of a traditional cottage in Curraghatoosane on the western outskirts of Listowel. This was a vernacular mud-walled building, with a thatched roof, which was built in the decades before Ireland’s Great Famine (1845–1852). The excavation uncovered details of the structure of the building and its surroundings, and how its occupants had improved their living space over the century or so it was occupied. Combining the results of the excavation with information gleaned from historic sources such as Census records allows us a glimpse into the lives of generations of the Connor family who owned the house. The excavation elicited great interest locally and the archaeological team hosted an open day at the end of their investigations. Some of the local people who attended recalled stories about the house and its occupants, which they shared. Now that the excavation is completed the archaeological team is hard at work assessing the materials recovered, evaluating the historical documentation and preparing a report. This post-excavation phase will continue for some time, once it is concluded a final excavation report will be compiled which will be uploaded to the TII Digital Heritage Collections (https://repository.dri.ie/catalog/v69...) and the results of the excavation and the post-excavation and historical analyses will be summarised in a publication. The video was produced by James McCarthy of Digimack Video Productions on behalf of Kerry County Council with funding provided by TII.