County: Cork Site name: MONEYCUSKER
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 82:19 Licence number: 99E0672
Author: Eamonn Cotter
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 530528m, N 566849m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.849530, -9.008364
In compliance with a condition of planning permission, test-trenching was carried out before the construction of a dwelling-house on 27 November 1999. The site lies in hilly countryside with frequent rock outcrops. Some low outcropping was visible in the area of the proposed construction. Local information indicated that quarrying had taken place on the site in recent times.
Two trenches, 18m and 17m, long were excavated across the site. Topsoil depth in the trenches varied from 15m to 5m. In sections of the trenches the thin topsoil lay directly on natural gravel and bedrock, while in other sections topsoil lay on undisturbed, orange, sandy clay subsoil.
With the exception of some sherds of modern pottery, no archaeological artefacts or features were noted.
Ballynanelagh, Rathcormac, Co. Cork
