County: Cork Site name: Ballinrush 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: E002419
Author: Linda Hegarty, Eachtra Archaeological Projects, Ballycurreen Industrial Estate, Kinsale Road, Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 581108m, N 606632m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.211136, -8.276429
Phase 2 excavation works were undertaken, on behalf of Cork County Council, along the route of the N8 Fermoy–Mitchelstown bypass. The proposed bypass involves the construction of c. 16km of dual carriageway extending from Gortore north of Fermoy to Carrigane north-east of Mitchelstown. A programme of advance testing (Phase 1) had been carried out in October 2005, the results of which appeared in Excavations 2005.
The site was located near the banks of the Glencorra Stream. Excavation revealed that all the features found at this site during testing were modern. Buried sandbags indicated that the site was the result of 20th-century military activity. The site is of no archaeological significance.
