County: Cork Site name: COOM
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 05E0508
Author: John Lehane and Áine Richardson, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 563358m, N 590208m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.062614, -8.534377
Monitoring was undertaken on behalf of Cork County Council of a new landfill site in the townlands of Glashaboy, Coom (Hudson), Coom (Fitzgerald) and Tooreen South, c. 10km north of Cork city. Topographically the site is an upland north-facing location. Coillte—the forestry service—have occupied the site and grown various species of evergreen trees prior to the approval of the present project.
A haul road measuring 3.2km will service a cell-based system of product management. The initial phase of operations was the installation of a haul road followed by the clearing of areas of ground allowing for the construction of administrative buildings, product control units and product deposition cells which will be at, or below, subsoil levels. The entire site is located above 240m OD. The soil is generally a peaty waterlogged clay. No archaeological features or artefacts were recorded while monitoring ground disturbance works.
Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Kinsale Road, Cork
