County: Cork Site name: CORK: Hanover Street/South Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 74:03401 Licence number: 96E0128
Author: Rose M Cleary, Dept. of Archaeology, University College Cork
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 567057m, N 571562m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.895243, -8.478643
The excavations uncovered the remains of a sill-beam house dated by dendrochronology to a period centring on the mid-twelfth century. The remains consisted of a four-roomed building set axially to the South Main Street. Only the foundation sill-beams and the earthfast uprights remained in situ. The building appears to have been reconstructed in the later twelfth century. A large range of well-preserved wooden artefacts were recovered.
