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2009:119 - CAHER, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork

Site name: CAHER

Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO108–014

Licence number: 09E0071

Author: Tony Miller

Author/Organisation Address: Tooreen, Dunmanway, Co. Cork

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 530550m, N 555555m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.748020, -9.005797

Monitoring was carried out on 2 March 2009 in advance of the construction of a dwelling-house within the zone of archaeological potential of a ringfort at Caher, Ballineen. The mid-brown clayey topsoil was removed over the entire development site and varied in depth between c. 0.3m and c. 0.5m. It overlay a yellow/orange gravelly boulder clay. No archaeological features or finds were noted.


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