County: Cork Site name: BANDON: McSweeney Quay
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 110:19 Licence number: 02E1756
Author: Niamh O’Callaghan, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 549010m, N 555065m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.745607, -8.738397
Test-trenches were excavated by machine as part of an assessment before the construction of fourteen apartments, with retail and office space, on the south side of the Bandon River at McSweeney Quay (formerly Burlington Quay), Gully Urban, Bandon, Co. Cork. The site is within the zone of archaeological potential established around the walled town of Bandon.
The site was 40m by 19m in extent, and a total length of 108m of trenches was excavated. They varied from 1m to 1.7m wide and from 1.1m to 2.4m deep. It was evident from the outset that the entire development area had been backfilled in modern times. The uppermost layer was composed of builder’s rubble and was 0.2–0.9m deep. Below this was a layer of dark brown silt, possibly garden soil. It had a maximum depth of 1.2m and became deeper at the northern end of the site, toward the river. The lower layers were composed of clays, all of which overlay orange/grey natural subsoil.
No archaeological artefacts or layers were recorded.
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