County: Cork Site name: CORK: Lynch’s Street/Little Hanover Street
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1675
Author: Tony Cummins, for Sheila Lane & Associates
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 566863m, N 571876m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.898053, -8.481491
Four test-trenches were excavated prior to the construction of an apartment building on the corner of Lynch’s Street/Little Hanover Street in the area to the west of the medieval walled city of Cork. This area was marshland prior to 18th-century reclamation works and was thereafter occupied by a number of factory buildings. The uppermost fill measured up to 0.5m deep and was a modern demolition rubble layer. This overlay a 1m-deep sandy layer containing brick and mortar and this sealed the underlying natural subsoil, which was a dark-grey boulder clay. This was present to a depth of 2.4m below modern ground level, where excavation halted. There were no archaeological features or finds uncovered.
AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
