County: Cork Site name: CORK: 19 Mary Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 74:41 Licence number: 02E1691
Author: Máire Ní Loingsigh, Sheila Lane & Associates
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 567459m, N 571444m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.894211, -8.472785
Two trenches were excavated within a 19th-century warehouse, before an application was made for permission to construct apartments. The crossing tower of the church of the medieval Augustinian friary Red Abbey is c. 20m to the south-east of the site.
The two trenches were oriented east–west, and their maximum excavated depth was 1.5m. Disturbed rubble and topsoil containing animal bone and 19th-/20th-century pottery was present throughout both trenches to c. 1–1.2m. Beneath the disturbed rubble layer, orange/brown sandy clay was present to the excavated depth of 0.95m. In previous excavations at Red Abbey, human burials were found in the orange/brown sandy clay, which is the natural subsoil in this area.
AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
