County: Cork Site name: KINSALE HARBOUR
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0380
Author: Rory Sherlock, Sheila Lane and Associates
Site type: Wreck
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 564190m, N 550170m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.702782, -8.518086
Monitoring was carried out over a nine-week period in March–May 2003 in Kinsale Harbour during dredging and piling operations associated with the extension of the existing Kinsale Yacht Club marina. One previously unknown shipwreck was encountered during the dredging operations. The timbers recovered from the dredger were preserved and the underwater archaeological mitigation was conducted by David McCullough (see No. 280, Excavations 2003). Modifications were made to the design of the marina extension and the associated dredging programme in order to preserve the wreck in situ. The analysis of the timbers recovered from the dredging operations and from the underwater work is continuing and a sample will be dated dendrochronologically.
AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
