County: Cork Site name: Curraduff
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0458
Author: Margaret McCarthy, Rostellan, Midleton, Co. Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 529612m, N 607129m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.211432, -9.029949
A test excavation was carried out in Curraduff, Newmarket, in advance of the construction of a single dwelling house. The site is located within the constraint zone of a fulacht fiadh (CO022–047) which was identified by the Cork Archaeological Survey in 1984. In all, four test-trenches were opened and these were placed across those areas of the site where maximum ground disturbance would occur. The topsoil consisted of a thin cover of light-brown friable sandy sediment rarely exceeding 0.2m in depth. It overlay firm orange/brown clay with occasional large stones. All topsoil in the excavated areas was cleared to the natural boulder clay and no features or finds of archaeological significance were noted.
