County: Cork Site name: CASTLEREDMOND, Midleton
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 76:24 Licence number: 01E0356
Author: Sheila Lane, Sheila Lane & Associates
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 588619m, N 572608m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.905508, -8.165390
Three test-trenches were excavated in June 2001 in the area most likely to expose the remains of the 15th-century Castleredmond Castle. A 1m-long section of north–south wall was exposed. The wall was 0.6m wide and 0.7m high and was constructed of limestone blocks using lime mortar. The rubble fill of the fissures exposed in the limestone bedrock in the vicinity of the wall contained several large stones with mortar and may represent wall collapse.
A second series of test-trenches excavated in December 2001 exposed the limestone bedrock close to the surface over a large area of the development site. Much of the remainder of the site had been filled with stone in the recent past. There was no remaining trace of Castleredmond Castle.
Consulting Archaeologists, AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
