2019:365 - CORK: Horgan's Quay, Ballinamought West/Montenotte, Cork

Three large 19th-century stone turntables identified during testing in 2018 were excavated. The surviving remains comprised large, random rubble, conjoined, circular pit structures with stepped interiors and remains of pairs of parallel walls extending north, south, east and west from them. The three were back-filled and much of the stone facing of the structures was robbed out. At the base of each a large slab of sandstone or limestone was found which presumably supported the rotating mechanism. None of the mechanism survived. The turntables probably accommodated the of 5’ 3” gauge track, similar to that revealed at the north of the complex during testing. Cartographic evidence suggests they were out of use and back-filled by 1900.