County: Cork Site name: BUTTEVANT/CASTELANDS/KNOCKBARRY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO017-053001- Licence number: 03E0704
Author: Sheila Lane
Site type: Historic town
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 552864m, N 608234m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.223842, -8.689902
Cork County Council proposes to install a sewerage scheme/collection system to include an upgrading of the wastewater treatment plant in the north Cork town of Buttevant. The scheme is principally located within the historic town. Monitoring of the excavation of slit-trenches along the proposed route was recommended. Twenty-five slit-trenches were excavated. Thirteen of these were located within the town and four within the zone of archaeological potential for a military barracks (SMR 17:138). The remaining eight trenches were located outside these zones. All were excavated to a depth of 1.2m where possible; they were between 0.45 and 0.8m wide and extended across the full width of the road.
Where stratification remained undisturbed, the road surface (0.45–0.8m thick) overlay the natural sandy, orange boulder clay which lay on a limestone bedrock. Two north–south stone culverts on each side of Richmond Street/Main Street were exposed. Two east–west stone culverts were also exposed on Richmond Street/Main Street. Part of the foundation of the approach wall to Buttevant Bridge (SMR 17:106) was exposed in ST13. This section of wall was considered to be relatively modern and did not appear to be a part of the original bridge structure. It was recommended that there should be no subsurface excavation across Buttevant Bridge, as it is a protected structure.
AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
