2007:221 - Brittas, Cork

The proposed development site, which comprised two fields in pasture, is located to the immediate west of the village of Glantane in north Cork. Part of the north-east corner of the site falls within the zone of archaeological potential for a levelled ringfort (CO032–082). Fifteen test-trenches were excavated on the site in June 2007. The trenches were excavated at c. 20m intervals. Topsoil depths averaged between 0.2m and 0.3m and were deepest along the eastern side of the east field, where the ground gradually sloped down eastwards to a stream on the boundary. The underlying subsoil varied between a sandy orange soil in the north-eastern part of the site to a pale orange or white/grey boulder clay elsewhere. There were no archaeological features noted in the test-trenches. Examination of the excavated topsoil exposed only a few sherds of modern china.