County: Cork Site name: MALLOW: Bridge Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 33:00901- Licence number: 97E0058
Author: Sheila Lane
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 556135m, N 598255m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.134420, -8.640735
One trial-trench and three trial-pits were opened on this site. Some 17th-century levels were noted from a depth of 1.2m to 2.2m. It was difficult to say whether these were habitation levels or secondary levels created by dumping in the past. Above these levels, there was evidence for filling of the site with stone chips and clay. It was on this fill that the previous development on the site took place.
It was proposed to lay a raft foundation 400mm thick resting on a 200mm-thick layer of hard-core for the new building, not exceeding a total depth of 600mm. The laying of this foundation was archaeologically monitored and it did not interfere with the 17th-century levels on the site.
1 Charlemont Heights, Coach Hill, Rochestown, Cork
