County: Cork Site name: GULLY, Bandon
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0857
Author: Sheila Lane, Sheila Lane & Associates
Site type: Town defences
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 548196m, N 554566m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.741048, -8.750121
Testing was carried out around the town walls of Bandon in December 2000 by Maurice Hurley (Excavations 2000, No. 115). Four test-trenches were opened to establish the nature and extent of the town walls; a fifth trench could not be opened at the time owing to the presence of a large concrete slab. This licence was transferred to the writer in August 2001 to open Trench 5 and to monitor groundworks on the site.
The trench was opened along the line of the wall on the west side of Bandon close to the River Bandon. The base of the town wall was confirmed at a depth of 1.9m below present ground level. Approximately 0.6m of the wall foundation was identified and the wall was found to measure 1.5m in width. Monitoring of piling, ground beams and all subsurface disturbance on the site was carried out in the town wall area. No finds or features of an archaeological nature were noted. The town wall was left undisturbed in situ.
Consulting Archaeologists, AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
