Housing development site near fairy fort in Killarney 'stripped of all top soil'

A building firm was fined €4,000 at Killarney District Court.

An example of a fairy fort.

A company has been fined a total of €4,000 and ordered to pay the council’s legal costs for failing to carry out archaeological monitoring in a large site next to a recorded fairy fort in Killarney, Co Kerry.

Kippagh Developments Ltd, of Ballyleigh, Leamlara, Co Cork, pleaded guilty to two summonses by Kerry County Council at today’s sitting of Killarney District Court, concerning the 8-hectare/20-acre development in former mixed woodland on the eastern edge of Killarney.