2008:157 - Ballinaspig More, Cork

Fourteen test-trenches were excavated at this proposed development site on the south-west outskirts of Cork city. A partially levelled ringfort in the north-east of the site will not be affected by the proposed development. The area containing the monument will be excluded from the development within a 20m buffer zone that will extend from the outer edge of the monument. The stratigraphy on the site consisted generally of mid-brown stony topsoil 0.2–0.3m deep, over orange/brown to yellow/grey clay subsoil. There was evidence for drains and/or plough furrows throughout the site. Two small pits (F1, 0.23m north–south by 0.2m by 0.1m deep and F2, 0.39m east–west by 0.36m by 0.18m deep and 0.4m south-west of F1) were recorded 100m south-west of the ringfort and 6.3m north of the south site boundary. They were filled with a mixture of topsoil and blackened soil with some charcoal. No other features or finds of archaeological significance were recorded in the vicinity of the ringfort or elsewhere.