County: Cork Site name: 2 ASHE STREET, YOUGHAL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 67:29 Licence number: 05E0313
Author: Tony Cummins, for Sheila Lane & Associates, Deanrock Business Park, Togher, Cork.
Site type: Urban
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 610351m, N 577945m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.953502, -7.849409
Monitoring of the construction of a single dwelling house was carried out. The development site is in the north-west corner of Base Town, a 15th-century walled suburb, and is located on the east-facing side of a steeply sloping hill overlooking Youghal town. The stratigraphy recorded during monitoring consisted of a thick layer of modern garden soil overlying the natural subsoil; this soil appeared to have been introduced in order to level out the ground surface on this hillside site. There were no archaeological features or finds uncovered during monitoring.
