2008:264 - Knockacorbally, Derry

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Derry Site name: Knockacorbally

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0789

Author: Miriam Carroll, Tobar Archaeological Services, Saleen, Midleton, Cork.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 560336m, N 576658m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.940611, -8.576870

Monitoring of topsoil removal associated with the construction of two reservoirs at Knockacorbally, Blarney, Co. Cork, was undertaken over one day. Topsoil measuring c. 0.3m in thickness was removed over an area measuring c. 100m east–west by 50m. Natural subsoil and bedrock was exposed throughout the site and no archaeological finds, features or deposits were uncovered.