County: Cork Site name: BUTTEVANT: Kerry Lane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 04E1479
Author: James Lyttleton, The Archaeology Company
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 554113m, N 608995m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.230785, -8.671729
Testing was carried out at a proposed development for a dormer dwelling at Kerry Lane, Buttevant, Co. Cork. The development site is a small area of open ground situated in the zone of archaeological potential for Buttevant, a historic town (SMR 17:53(01)), with an urban tower-house—Lombard’s Castle (SMR 17:53(02))—c. 200m to the south-east. The postulated western perimeter of the town’s medieval wall runs across Kerry Lane c. 50m to the west of the site. Inspection of the various editions of the 6-inch OS series indicates that the site of proposed development was open ground since at least the 1840s. Testing consisted of the mechanical excavation of three trenches, which yielded a number of pits and a linear ditch feature running east–west at the north end of the site, all of modern date. Modern pottery, glass and brick, along with a domestic animal burial, were unearthed. No features or finds of archaeological significance were recorded.
Editor’s note: Although carried out during 2004, the summary of this site did not arrive in time for inclusion in the bulletin of that year.
90 Leesdale, Model Farm Road, Cork
