County: Cork Site name: CASTLEHARRISON
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0168
Author: Margaret McCarthy, Rostellan, Midleton, Co. Cork.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 554188m, N 619210m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.322611, -8.672018
An application by Ballyhea GAA club to Cork County Council to construct new changing rooms between two existing playing-fields led to a request for a test excavation to be undertaken. The GAA pitch is located at the north-east corner of the designated zone of archaeological potential around a holy well (CO008–03) and is situated to the west of Ballyhea Church (CO008–01) and Castle Harrison House (CO008–02). A long test-trench was placed north–south across the long axis of the proposed changing rooms and two more were placed at right angles to the main trench. The test-trench intended for the percolation area to the south-east of the building was not excavated, as topsoil had been removed from here during the construction of a practice wall in previous years. No features or finds of archaeological significance were noted in the investigated areas.
