County: Cork Site name: CLONFERT/LISDANGAN/NEWMARKET/CURRADUFF
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO022-044----–46, CO022-051----, CO022-055----, CO022-059---- and CO022-270---- Licence number: 03E1597
Author: Sheila Lane
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 529573m, N 607111m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.211268, -9.030517
Planning permission was granted to the ESB for the construction of an overhead 38kV line, 1.3km and 0.76km long, at Clonfert, Lisdangan, Newmarket and Curraduff, Co. Cork. A condition of planning required that all ground disturbance associated with the pole foundation pits along the proposed route of the line be monitored. It also required that a 20m buffer zone be established around any nearby archaeological monuments encountered along the proposed route. A number of the ESB poles were erected, in 1m2 foundation pits, within the zones of archaeological potential for monuments, but none were located close to the visible remains of any of these sites (six fulachta fiadh, a bridge and a deserted medieval village). Generally topsoil was excavated to a depth of 0.3m and this overlay a loose, orangey-brown, stony silt clay subsoil. No finds or features of an archaeological nature were noted during monitoring.
AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
