County: Cork Site name: BANDON: Gully
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0857
Author: Sheila Lane
Site type: Town defences
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 548196m, N 554566m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.741048, -8.750121
An extension to this licence was issued to carry out further monitoring in and around the Bandon town walls (Excavations 2001, No. 122) during the construction of the Caulfield Shopping Centre. No finds or features of an archaeological nature were noted during monitoring. The standing town walls and quay walls were recorded and a conservation strategy by John Cronin, conservation consultant, was followed.
In advance of conservation works, vegetation was removed, where possible, from areas of the wall to be consolidated. Where sections of wall needed to be rebuilt, existing rubble masonry was harvested from the site and reused in accordance with the character of the wall. A suitable lime mortar was used in all conservation works. For reasons of public safety and for protection of the town wall, metal guardrails were erected, to the south of a sally port in the quay wall and at other locations. The ground along the west face of the town wall, within the development site and to the south of the quay wall, was landscaped and planted with suitable shrubs.
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