County: Cork Site name: YOUGHAL: 19 South Main Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 98E0403
Author: Tony Cummins for Archaeological Services Unit, University College Cork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 610599m, N 577764m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.951868, -7.845807
Two test-trenches were excavated in advance of the construction of an apartment building in the back garden of a property facing onto South Main Street, Youghal. The town wall is to the north of the development area. The stratigraphy in both trenches was similar, with between 0.4m and 0.9m of dark, humic topsoil lying on a rubble layer containing both post-medieval and modern pottery, fragmented brick and animal bones. This rubble layer varied from 0.4m deep in the west half of the site to over 0.8m deep in the east. It overlay a sterile, yellow/brown, silty clay subsoil in all areas. No archaeological features or artefacts were uncovered in these test-trenches.
