County: Cork Site name: Rocky Island, Ringaskiddy
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO087–105 Licence number: 06D72, 06R168
Author: Avril Purcell, Sheila Lane & Associates, Deanrock Business Park, Togher, Cork.
Site type: 19th-century magazine
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 580233m, N 566611m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.851368, -8.286911
An intertidal and metal-detector survey were carried out on the north-western foreshore area of Rocky Island in Cork Harbour in advance of the proposed construction of an outfall pipe associated with the redevelopment of the magazine as a crematorium. No features or finds of archaeological significance were revealed.
