2023:724 - Earls Well, Rochfordstown, Waterfall, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: Earls Well, Rochfordstown, Waterfall
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO085-045---- & CO085-046----
Licence number: 22E0395
Author: Avril Purcell
Author/Organisation Address: Lane Purcell Archaeology, 64 Fr Mathew Rd, Turner's Cross, Cork
Site type: Fulacht fiadh
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 561983m, N 567049m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.854352, -8.551867
Archaeological monitoring of backfilling above two fulachtaí fiadh was carried out as part of an agreed landscape plan for this residential site. Geotextile membrane was laid above the existing sod across the buffer zones of both sites. Subsoil was laid above this capped with topsoil. No features or finds of archaeological significance were identified.