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2009:166 - RATHBARRY: Milltown, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork

Site name: RATHBARRY: Milltown

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 09E0505

Author: Avril Purcell, Lane Purcell Archaeology

Site type: Designed landscape - formal garden

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

ITM: E 533266m, N 536211m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.574490, -8.962774

Seven test-trenches were mechanically excavated across the site. A number of stone spreads associated with a now levelled walled garden of Castlefreke Demesne were revealed. The walled garden is depicted on the 1842 and 1899 OS 6-inch maps and the 1937 25-inch map.


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