2009:112 - CURRANE HILL, BALLINEEN, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork Site name: CURRANE HILL, BALLINEEN

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0386

Author: Liam Hackett, Headland Archaeology (Ireland) Ltd, Unit 1, Wallingstown Business Park, Little Island, Cork.

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 531292m, N 554151m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.735493, -8.994765

The proposed development involves the construction of a 30m telecommunications support structure, equipment cabinet, fencing and associated site works, as part of the government’s National Broadband Scheme. Three trenches were excavated in a northeast/south-west orientation, each measuring c. 11m long and 1.9m wide. These revealed a thin layer of almost black topsoil with much slightly decomposed shale throughout. Four linear furrows were discovered in the trenches, in a similar orientation to the field boundaries depicted on the first-edition OS map and are not considered to be archaeological in nature.