County: Cork Site name: INCHYDONEY
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 06E0373
Author: Máire Ní Loingsigh, Sheila Lane & Associates
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 539317m, N 539196m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.602000, -8.876000
Seven test-trenches were excavated in agricultural land at the site of a proposed housing development on the north side of Inchydoney Island. Stratigraphy in the trenches along the route of the proposed access road consisted of 0.25–0.6m of featureless topsoil, over light- to yellow/brown subsoil with patches of bright orange in places. In the southern part of the site, a north-facing field, the 0.25–0.4m of topsoil was very sandy and in places the underlying geology consisted of natural sand. Two drainage features and a deposit of dumped stony material containing animal bone and seashells were recorded; these are of 19th/20th-century date. No archaeological finds or features associated with the nearby church and graveyard (CO135–104(01, 04)), the souterrain (CO135–104(03)) or the possible ecclesiastical enclosure (CO135–104(02)), were noted during testing.
Deanrock Business Park, Togher, Cork
