County: Cork Site name: GREENFIELD
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0732
Author: Donald Murphy, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Habitation site
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 557688m, N 569505m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.876125, -8.614509
Test-trenching in advance of construction of the N22 Ballincollig Bypass revealed a series of significant sites. Amongst these was a small area of limestone slabs and tiles. An area around these was stripped and cleaned. Excavation uncovered a series of interconnecting drains feeding into a shallow pond. A number of subsidiary features, a masonry platform, post-hole, hearth, etc., were associated but defied a logical interpretation. The associated finds, including quality glassware and ceramics, would appear to provide a date in the mid-18th century for activity on the site. The features and associated finds must be associated with activity which lay outside the area of the road-take. The nature of the finds would suggest high-status domestic occupation in the close vicinity of the excavated features.
15 Trinity Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
