2004:0232 - CORK: Eason's Avenue, Shandon, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork Site name: CORK: Eason's Avenue, Shandon

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E0374

Author: Bruce Sutton, Eachtra Archaeological Projects

Site type: Well

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

ITM: E 567274m, N 572513m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.903811, -8.475571

Test-trenching was carried out in advance of development at Eason's Avenue, Shandon, Cork, on behalf of the National Building Agency. The development area is located to the north of the zone of archaeological potential for Cork, SMR 74:122.

Four trenches were opened across the site. Nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered during the testing.

A stone-lined well, square in plan, was recorded on the site. For safety reasons the well was backfilled.

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