County: Cork Site name: Carlislefort/Castlemary/Crocane/Kilgrellane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0076
Author: Terry Connell, ACS Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Site type: Iron Age – medieval
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 582599m, N 562638m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.815733, -8.252371
Monitoring of topsoil-stripping along the East Cork Gas Pipeline was undertaken on behalf of Bord Gáis Éireann between March and April 2008. A number of sites consisting of isolated archaeological features were uncovered. With the exception of Carlislefort 1, which was preserved in situ, all other sites were excavated under the monitoring licence. These sites included Carlislefort 1, Carlislefort 2, Castlemary 3, Castlemary 4, Crocane 2 and Kilgrellane 1. Excavation of these sites was carried out by Terry Connell, Emma O’Reilly and Niall McCarthy in advance of gas pipe installation. Radiocarbon analysis of the various sites revealed that they dated from the Iron Age to the medieval period.
