County: Cork Site name: Ballinveiltig/Ballinaspig More and Gourtagoulane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0663
Author: Maurice F. Hurley, 6 Clarence Court, St. Luke’s, Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 562064m, N 568549m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.867848, -8.550853
An area within the Ballynora to Lehenaghmore gas pipeline route was identified as being of archaeological potential due to proximity to a circular enclosure (CO085–119) apparent in aerial photographs. No surface anomalies were apparent in the field at the time of inspection. The area is located in agricultural land close to the summit of an east–west ridge at an altitude of c. 75m OD. The area of archaeological potential extends over a distance of c. 50–70m in two townlands, Ballinveiltig and Ballinaspig More; i.e. at either site of the townland boundary.
A 1.6m-wide trench was excavated in 5m segments, each of 10m with 5m intervals over a length of 75m. The field had been subject to regular modern cultivation and plough soil of c. 0.4m deep overlay yellow boulder clay and shale rock. Many modern items such as plastic and drink cans were found in the plough soil but no anomalies were apparent in the topsoil/subsoil interface or in the subsoil.
