County: Cork Site name: FOILDARRIG
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 115:50 Licence number: 01E1036
Author: Sheila Lane, Sheila Lane & Associates
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 467477m, N 547538m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.664638, -9.915769
Planning permission was granted for a dwelling-house inside the zone of archaeological potential for a boulder burial at Foildarrig, Castletownbere. The boulder burial was placed incorrectly on the Record of Monuments and Places map and the dwelling-house is actually outside its zone of potential. This error was pointed out to Dúchas staff at the Archaeological Survey Office, University College, Cork.
Four test-trenches were excavated along the foundations of the proposed dwelling and one along the proposed driveway, c. 107m long. No finds or features of archaeological significance were noted.
Consulting Archaeologists, AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
