County: Cork Site name: BANDON: Kilbrogan Hill
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO110–019 Licence number: 06E1033
Author: Tony Cummins, for Sheila Lane & Associates
Site type: Excavation - msicellaneous
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 548936m, N 555357m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.748223, -8.739512
Test-trenching was carried out at a proposed development site located on Kilbrogan Hill on the north side of Bandon town. The proposed development will involve the construction of three houses in an enclosed yard located 25m inside the projected course of the eastern line of the 17th-century town wall. The consulted cartographic sources indicated that the development site was an open area to the rear of a tanner’s yard in the 18th century and was enclosed by boundary walls during the 19th century.
Five test-trenches were excavated across the areas to be impacted on by the proposed housing development. The stratigraphy consisted of a modern overburden layer sealing three distinct soil layers containing frequent inclusions of rubble, animal bones, 18th/19th-century pottery and ceramic drain fragments. The natural boulder clay was encountered between 0.95–1.25m below modern ground level and there were no archaeological features or finds uncovered during investigations at this site.
Deanrock Business Park, Togher, Cork
