County: Cork Site name: CORK: 43 Cornmarket Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 74:34(02) Licence number: 01E0457 ext.
Author: Sheila Lane
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 567195m, N 571982m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.899027, -8.476670
A grant of planning was issued to convert an old market into a public house. The site lies within the zone of archaeological potential of the medieval walled city of Cork (SMR 74:122). Sections of the city wall have been exposed to the north and south of the development, and the line of the wall is thought to have run inside the front façade of the existing building. Testing was carried out, and no evidence of the city wall was found. Monitoring was undertaken within the building and during the excavation of a service trench in Cotteren’s Lane, to the south of the building, and across Cornmarket Street. No evidence of the medieval city wall was found in the excavated trench in Cotteren’s Lane. The ground in the trench had been greatly disturbed on many occasions in the past. All excavations on the site revealed no evidence of medieval or other archaeological levels.
AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
