County: Cork Site name: BALLINGLANNA NORTH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E1125
Author: Eamonn Cotter, Eachtra Archaeological Projects, Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Kinsale Road, Cork.
Site type: Site of tuck mill
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 581491m, N 603645m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.184297, -8.270663
Testing was undertaken on behalf of Cork County Council on the route of the N8 Fermoy–Mitchelstown bypass, which involves the construction of 16km of the N8 from Gortore, north of Fermoy, to Carrigane, north-east of Mitchelstown. The principal aim of this phase of the project was to test for any previously unknown sites by a programme of centre-line and offset testing and to test sites of archaeological potential identified in the EIS and geophysical survey.
A tuck mill (CHS 8) was identified in the EIS report in the townland of Ballinglanna North. It was identifiable from the first-edition OS maps but is absent on the second and third editions. No aboveground trace of the mill was recorded. CHS 8 lies within the CPO but is outside the proposed route line and, consequently, it was not tested as part of the centre-line testing programme.
