County: Cork Site name: Ballyadeen
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0746
Author: Margaret McCarthy, Rostellan, Midleton, Co. Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 570035m, N 602546m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.173923, -8.438077
The proposed construction of a single dwelling house in Ballyadeen townland near Castletownroche led to a request for a test excavation to be carried out. The site is located within the archaeological constraint zone of a possible ringfort (CO026–097) and a circular enclosure (CO026–190), the latter identified as a cropmark from an aerial photograph. The possible ringfort is located in the north-west corner of the field scheduled for development and it is depicted as a hachured circular enclosure on the 1842 OS map. The enclosure is located to the north of the development on the opposite side of the road leading to Glanworth. No surface trace of the enclosing elements for either monument appears on the ground.
In all, five test-trenches were opened and these were placed across those areas of the site where maximum ground disturbance was likely to occur. The topsoil reached a maximum depth of 0.35m and it overlay the upper subsoil of a natural drift deposit of mottled orange and brown sandy clay. All test-trenches were excavated to a level below the natural boulder clay and no features or finds of archaeological significance were noted in any of the investigated areas.
