County: Cork Site name: CLOYNES: Spital Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0218
Author: John Tierney, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 591751m, N 567762m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.862002, -8.119754
Testing was undertaken at Spital Lane, Cloyne, Co. Cork, before the construction of 33 houses. The development site is within the zone of archaeological potential for Cloyne. There are a number of recorded monuments in the vicinity (round tower, cathedral, fortified house), but no known monuments on the site. Records show that a leper hospital (RMP 88:18), founded in 1326, is on or near the development site. This is where Spital Lane got its name. No traces of the hospital were uncovered during testing.
Nine trenches were mechanically excavated; they were 1.1m wide and varied in length from 13m to 65m.
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