2025:702 - Barrack Hill, Ballycotton, Cork

Archaeological monitoring was carried out as part of a wastewater (sewer) installation and upgrade scheme at Barrack Hill, Ballycotton, Co. Cork in early September 2025. The works were required to connect a new residential development to the existing local wastewater network, and entailed the laying of a replacement sewer line in a single trench excavated from a tie-in point at a manhole on the R629 road, extending up Barrack Hill to the south, beyond a second existing manhole, which was replaced with a larger one. From thereon, it would be a completely new line, connecting to another new manhole at the entrance to the new development.

The majority of the works area fell within the Zone of Notification for Recorded Monument CO089-041—-, the site of a former Church, located around 50m from the northern tie-in point. No archaeology was noted during the monitoring of the works, and the construction of the sewer pipeline proceeded as planned.