County: Cork Site name: RIVER LEE AND LOUGH MAHON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1346
Author: Kieran Campbell, for Boland Archaeological Services Ltd.
Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 576015m, N 570220m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.883644, -8.348393
Monitoring of maintenance dredging in the River Lee, from Cork city through Lough Mahon to Passage West, took place from 26 August to 1 September 2002 on behalf of Cork Main Drainage. Two vessels were employed on the dredging operation, a suction hopper dredger, the Volvox Anglia, and a plough dredger, the Camperduin. Monitoring involved inspection of the screen on the dredge-head of the suction dredger and the plough on the plough dredger when these were lifted from the water at the end of the dredging cycles. In Lough Mahon, at NGR 173542 071550, the lower left mandible of a cow was recovered. Otherwise, no objects of archaeological interest were recovered, the material observed consisting largely of modern domestic debris.
Arden Road, Tullamore, Co. Offaly
