County: Cork Site name: Cappagh/Ballynacubby
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E1110
Author: Máire Ní Loingsigh, Sheila Lane & Associates, Deanrock Business Park, Togher, Cork.
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 562897m, N 550449m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.705204, -8.536813
Twenty test-trenches were excavated at this greenfield proposed housing development site. A previously unrecorded fulacht fiadh had been noted in the townland of Cappagh, in the western part of the site. The spread of burnt stone associated with the monument measures 7.3m east–west by 9m.
A number of earlier field boundaries, a crushed stone road, field drains and furrows were also recorded, as well as a pit of no proven archaeological significance. An ornamental tower (CO112–084) is located 50m to the south and is not within the proposed development site.
If the proposed development goes ahead, further archaeological investigation of the fulacht fiadh and the pit will be carried out.
