County: Cork Site name: CORK: Blackrock/Marina/Summerhill North
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 99E0212
Author: Máire Ní Loingsigh, Cork Corporation, City Hall, Cork.
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 566530m, N 572017m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.899698, -8.377774
Excavation of service trenches for this phase of the Cork Main Drainage Scheme began on 5 May 1999 and is ongoing. Monitoring under this licence ended on 2 June 2000. The areas excavated between January and June 2000 included the Marina, Monahan’s Road, Victoria Road, Castle Road, Lower Glanmire Road, Summerhill North and Atlantic Pond.
The work involved the laying of sewer pipes (maximum diameter 1.05m) and storm drain pipes (diameter 1.35m) in trenches varying in depth from 2m to 5m, the construction of associated chambers, and the construction of the main pump-house for the Cork Main Drainage Scheme at Atlantic Pond.
The areas where the scheme is taking place were largely settled by the wealthy upper classes in the 18th and 19th centuries. Atlantic Pond and the Marina were reclaimed from the tidal reaches of the River Lee during that time.
Monitoring of excavation along the Marina, in Monahan’s Road, Victoria Road and Castle Road recorded no features. No archaeology was recorded in Summerhill North or Lower Glanmire Road, where the new pipes followed the route of existing culverts. At Atlantic Pond, stratigraphy consisted of wet peaty material over a natural gravelly silt containing cobbles.
The works in the above areas did not directly impinge on any recorded monuments, and nothing of archaeological significance was noted.
