County: Cork Site name: CORK: 4–12 Coach Street and 41–43 Sheares Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 74: 122 Licence number: 00E0355
Author: Sheila Lane, Sheila Lane & Associates
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 566916m, N 571912m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.898381, -8.480712
Testing took place at a site off Coach Street and to the rear of Sheares Street, Cork. The site lies outside of and c. 200m to the west of the medieval walled city of Cork. Two test-trenches were initially excavated at Coach Street after several single-storey buildings were demolished. The buildings on Sheares Street were then deemed to be unstable by Cork Corporation and were demolished. Two further test-trenches were excavated in this area. In all trenches the natural river gravels were exposed beneath a thick layer (0.8m) of building rubble. There was no evidence for houses or archaeological habitation levels on the site.
Consulting Archaeologists, AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
