County: Cork Site name: Dangansallagh
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 07E1104
Author: Maurice F. Hurley, 6 Clarence Court, St Luke’s Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 524127m, N 578329m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.951878, -9.103790
Testing was undertaken to accompany a planning application for a dwelling and domestic garage at Dangansallagh, Ballymakeera, Macroom, Co. Cork. A road lies between the site and a ringfort (CO059–052). The proposed entrance to the site, however, is within the demarcation circle of the monument. As the exact location of the proposed dwelling was under discussion with the planning authority, it was decided to excavate three long trenches in order to give a comprehensive picture of the potential archaeological resource of the site. One trench ran parallel to the Clondrohid to Ballymakeera Road and the other two trenches were diagonal to the first, taken through the area where the dwelling is most likely to be located. There were no features or finds of archaeological significance uncovered in the test-trenches and no soil anomalies of potential archaeological significance were identified.
