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2008:277 - RAFFEEN, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork

Site name: RAFFEEN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 08E0284

Author: Nial O’Neill, Headland Archaeology Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork

Site type: No archaeology found

Period/Dating: N/A

ITM: E 574219m, N 564929m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.835999, -8.374084

Testing was undertaken at the proposed site of a new development comprising two semi-detached houses immediately north of Raffeen Cottages in the townland of Raffeen, Monkstown, Co. Cork. The site fell within the zone of archaeological potential for CO087–017, a holy well. Six linear trenches were excavated across the footprint of the proposed development. No features or finds were uncovered.


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