County: Cork Site name: CORK: 3 Barrack Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 74:122 Licence number: 99E0650
Author: Sheila Lane
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 566961m, N 571345m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.893290, -8.480013
One test-trench was opened here in November 1999. A sherd of medieval pottery in a layer of oyster shells was noted. A subsequent excavation exposed several medieval deposits overlying a timber floor or walkway of 12th-century date. Finds included animal bone, medieval pottery and some metal slag.
1 Charlemont Heights, Coach Hill, Rochestown, Cork
