County: Cork Site name: KILMORE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0255
Author: Jerry O'Sullivan, GUARD, Archaeology Department, University of Glasgow
Site type: Ecclesiastical enclosure
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 11597m, N 16718m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.851184, -9.221236
A programme of archaeological evaluation at Kilmore, near Ballingeary, Co. Cork, was carried out in July 1997 by a team from Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division (GUARD). The site is a grass meadow 3.5ha in extent, with a killeen site near the centre and a known souterrain site (partly collapsed) near the western perimeter. These elements, combined with curvilinear boundaries, suggested that this was the site of an early medieval ecclesiastical settlement.
The investigation comprised geophysical survey (magnetometer and resistivity), excavation of machine-cut trial-trenches, and detailed topographic survey using a total station. The backfilled ditch of a large earthwork enclosure was identified by trial-trenches and in geophysical survey plots. Only a few plough-truncated features were recorded within the interior, however, and no stratified sediments of any sort were found.
The evaluation was jointly sponsored by the Ballingeary Historical Society (with Leader funding) and the University of Glasgow.
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