County: Cork Site name: CAHER
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO108–014 Licence number: 09E0071
Author: Tony Miller, Tooreen, Dunmanway, Co. Cork.
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 530550m, N 555555m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.748020, -9.005797
Monitoring was carried out on 2 March 2009 in advance of the construction of a dwelling-house within the zone of archaeological potential of a ringfort at Caher, Ballineen. The+mid-brown clayey topsoil was removed over the entire development site and varied+in depth between c. 0.3m and c. 0.5m. It overlay a yellow/orange gravelly boulder clay. No archaeological features or finds were noted.
