County: Cork Site name: FOILDARRIG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 115:21 Licence number: 99E0197
Author: Eamonn Cotter
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 467477m, N 547538m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.664638, -9.915769
Test-trenching was carried out in May 1999 before housing construction, in compliance with a planning condition imposed because of the proximity of the development to the site of a castle that formerly stood in this area. No visible trace of the castle now survives, and its exact location is uncertain.
Three test-trenches, each c. 30m long, were opened across the area of the proposed development. Trench A ran east-west across the southern part of the site, Trench B ran parallel to it across the northern part of the site, and Trench C ran north-south, connecting A and B and extending c. 6m further north to the edge of a low-lying marshy area in the north-western corner of the site.
Topsoil varied from 0.2m to 0.7m deep and was deepest at the south-east corner of the site, where modern dumping had taken place. The topsoil lay directly on undisturbed natural subsoil and gravels.
Nothing of archaeological significance was noted.
Ballynanelagh, Rathcormac, Co. Cork
