County: Cork Site name: BALLYNACARRIGA
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 27:109 Licence number: 05E1124
Author: Eamonn Cotter, Eachtra Archaeological Projects, Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Kinsale Road, Cork.
Site type: Souterrain
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 581446m, N 602656m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.175408, -8.271267
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 surveying.
A souterrain (CHS 5) was identified in the EIS report in the townland of Ballynacarriga. The souterrain was located during the testing and identified as a partially backfilled, stone-built chamber. It was not possible to establish its full dimensions.
