County: Cork Site name: BARRYSCOURT, Carrigtwohill
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO075-018001- and CO075-018002- Licence number: 03E0828
Author: Colm Moloney, Headland Archaeology Ltd.
Site type: Castle - tower house
Period/Dating: Post Medieval (AD 1600-AD 1750)
ITM: E 582631m, N 573084m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.909632, -8.252431
Test excavation was undertaken at a proposed development site which forms the east boundary of Barryscourt Castle grounds and is located within the zone of archaeological potential for the tower-house and bawn and a fulacht fiadh.
Six trenches were excavated. Significant archaeology was identified in Trenches 1, 5 and 6. Trenches 1 and 4 contained cultivation remains of post-medieval date. The archaeology discovered in Trench 6 included a cobbled surface, a wall and a possible ditch. The wall and cobbled surface are of likely post-medieval date. The possible ditch may be associated with the example previously identified in the fields north and west of the tower-house and bawn. A series of negative features, largely rubbish pits of probable post-medieval date, were identified in Trenches 1 and 5.
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