County: Cork Site name: BANDON: Chapel Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: RMP 110:40 Licence number: 00E0614
Author: John Tierney, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 548660m, N 554765m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.742879, -8.743420
Test excavations were conducted here in advance of a housing development. Concerns were raised by the acting Cork County Archaeologist about a possible Quaker burial-ground occurring at this site, where the development of a new housing estate was proposed. Testing was not a condition for planning permission but was requested by the acting Cork County Archaeologist and Dúchas The Heritage Service.
Trenches were initially dug in the area in which the cemetery was most likely to be situated. On finding no evidence of this the search was extended throughout the proposed development site with seventeen trenches dug in all. These failed to uncover any archaeological remains.
Further examination of the Cork Archaeological Survey files, combined with the results of the test-trenching, suggests that the Quaker burial-ground is situated in a field adjacent to the development site.
Ballytrisnane, Old Parish, Co. Waterford
