County: Cork Site name: KINSALE HARBOUR
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E0565; 03D016; 03R035
Author: David A. McCullough, for The Archaeological Diving Company Ltd.
Site type: Wreck
Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)
ITM: E 563332m, N 550701m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.707500, -8.530556
Monitoring by Rory Sherlock of a dredging programme for Kinsale Yacht Club, Kinsale Harbour, during March 2003 recovered timber fragments from the seabed, where previous geophysical survey had not revealed any significant anomalies (No. 279, Excavations 2003, 03E0380).
Subsequent underwater inspection on 4 April 2003 discovered a significant shipwreck at the point from where the timbers were recovered. The wreck had been buried in stiff muds that lie just below the covering sands, the removal of which was the object of the dredging programme. The wreck site was identified over a c. 20m by 20m area and its essential outline recorded. Pottery recovered from the wreck suggests a date of the late 16th century. The site represents an important new shipwreck discovery.
41 The Orchard, Kilkenny
