County: Cork Site name: Knockraheen
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: 06E1215
Author: Margaret McCarthy, Archaeological Consultant, Rostellan, Midleton, Co. Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance.
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 529639m, N 581080m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.977322, -9.024182
An impact assessment involving a test excavation was carried out at Knockraheen, Carriganimmy, prior to planning approval for the construction of a single dwelling house within the constraint zone of a standing stone (CO059–021) and two fulachta fiadh (CO059–184, 185). The Knockraheen megalithic complex (CO050–023), including a radial stone circle, a standing stone and a stone alignment, is located less than a mile to the south-east of the proposed development. The standing stone is set into a field boundary less than 30m to the south-west of the house. Four test-trenches were opened in those areas of the site that were subjected to maximum ground disturbance and nothing of archaeological significance was uncovered.
