County: Cork Site name: RATHPEACON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 63:55 Licence number: 99E0352
Author: Tim Coughlan, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 564928m, N 575662m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.931968, -8.509985
Test-trenching was carried out in the vicinity of the site of a standing stone at Rathpeacon, Co. Cork. The site was close to the proposed route of the Caherlag to Ballincollig Bord Gáis Éireann pipeline. The standing stone had not been located, but the route of the pipeline ran within 10m of the site, according to the environmental impact statement prepared by Dominic Delaney.
Three test-tenches were opened by mechanical digger and then cleaned by hand before topsoil-stripping along the wayleave of the pipeline. The trenches were between 32m and 39m long. No archaeological remains were identified in the trenches or in the area of the wayleave after the stripping of topsoil for the pipeline.
Editor's Note: Formerly labelled as 'Site of standing stone'
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