1997:029 - AGHACROSS, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork Site name: AGHACROSS

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 19:00202 Licence number: 96E0136

Author: Laurence Dunne, Eachtra Archaeological Projects

Site type: Church

Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)

ITM: E 569216m, N 610747m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.247588, -8.450803

Cork County Council initiated a programme of consolidation work at St Molagga's Church in 1995. The ruined church is surrounded by a graveyard. To facilitate repair work to the limestone door ope, at the eastern end of the southern wall, a trench under the door was opened by hand. It measured 1.33m north-south, 2m east-west, and was 1m deep. The fill, a loose sandy silt, included a moderate amount of fragmentary human bone and large amounts of unhewn sandstone fragments. No grave-cuts, articulated bone, wall foundation trenches or cut stone fragments were recorded or recovered. The trench was excavated to a sufficient depth to establish a platform to enable consolidation work to commence.

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