2008:211 - Dunnes stores, 102–105 St Patrick’s Street, Cork, Cork

The proposed development site is located in the heart of Cork city, c. 2km east of the medieval core of the city and within the zone of archaeological potential for Cork (CO074–122). There is a Queen Anne townhouse (CO074–108) on the adjacent site to the west.
Monitoring of engineering trial pits and of the bulk removal of soils from the site was carried out over a period between October 2007 and June 2008. At the lowest level redeposited estuarine silts, which are likely to have been dredged and deliberately dumped during reclamation work, overlay the original reed marsh on which Cork was built. Unevenly stratified deposits of rubble and rubbish overlay the introduced muds. A barrel pump well and a stone-filled well shaft were noted during monitoring. Deposits of woody, organic material, similar to deposits excavated at the adjacent site to the west, were noted beneath the estuarine muds (at –1.714m OD) and overlying the glacial gravels. These deposits were laid down naturally. No further finds or features of an archaeological nature were observed.