County: Cork Site name: CAHERLAG/BALLINCOLLIG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0314
Author: Tim Coughlan, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 559048m, N 570818m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.888026, -8.594904
Monitoring of topsoil-stripping along the route of the Bord Gáis Éireann Caherlag to Ballincollig pipeline was carried out during the summer of 1999. The pipeline was 22.5km long and extended over undulating pastureland around the outskirts of Cork City. The wayleave of the pipeline was fenced off before any plant excavations took place along the route. This created a 20m-wide corridor, within which all works on the pipeline were contained.
Topsoil was stripped from a 15m-wide area within the corridor, with the remaining 5m being used for stockpiling the excavated topsoil. At intervals of approximately 100m, sections of the remaining 5m-wide area were also stripped to facilitate stockpiling of a sand mix that was used during the laying of the pipe. The trench for the pipe was 0.6m wide (on average) and was excavated to a depth of c. 2.5m.
During monitoring of the topsoil removal four sites were excavated-three fulachta fiadh and a corn-drying kiln-at Killeens, Monard, Butlerstown Little and Brooklodge (see Nos 80 and 81 Excavations 1999 and 106 and 117 Excavations 1999) respectively. A number of other spreads of burnt material were recorded along the route of the pipeline, some of which may have been associated with features/sites that lay outside the wayleave, while others represented the remains of more recent activity.
2 Killiney View, Albert Road Lower, Glenageary, Co. Dublin
