2001:172 - FOILDARRIG, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: FOILDARRIG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 115:50
Licence number: 01E1036
Author: Sheila Lane, Sheila Lane & Associates
Author/Organisation Address: Consulting Archaeologists, AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 467477m, N 547538m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.664638, -9.915769
Planning permission was granted for a dwelling-house inside the zone of archaeological potential for a boulder burial at Foildarrig, Castletownbere. The boulder burial was placed incorrectly on the Record of Monuments and Places map and the dwelling-house is actually outside its zone of potential. This error was pointed out to Dúchas staff at the Archaeological Survey Office, University College, Cork.
Four test-trenches were excavated along the foundations of the proposed dwelling and one along the proposed driveway, c. 107m long. No finds or features of archaeological significance were noted.