2008:258 - KINSALE: Troopers Close, Barrack Hill, Cork

Pre-development testing of a proposed development site at Troopers Close, Kinsale, was undertaken on foot of a Further Information request. The proposed development consisted of the construction of a discount retail store on a greenfield site which is partially located on the site of a levelled RIC infantry barracks. The barracks would appear to have been levelled in the 1920s. Six test-trenches were excavated across the site in which red-brick and stone rubble likely to relate to the demolition of the barracks was uncovered. The basal courses of a stone wall which may represent the remains of the north range of the barracks were also uncovered in Trench 2. A number of red-brick drains, ceramic and metal pipes and patches of cobbling were uncovered in various trenches across the site and also relate to the demolished barracks.