County: Cork Site name: Bishop Mac Egan College, Lackaduff, Macroom
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 10E0443
Author: Maurice F. Hurley, 6 Clarence Court, St Luke’s, Cork.
Site type: Testing
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 533852m, N 572952m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.904784, -8.961303
Testing was required as a condition of planning for a classroom extension with toilets and a quiet room to the north-eastern side of the Bishop McEgan College, Macroom, Co. Cork. The proposed extension lay 80m to the east of Macroom Castle (tower-house in ruins, CO071–049) in Lackaduff townland. The castle stands on the east bank of the Sullane River just south of Macroom Bridge in Lackaduff townland, within the urban area of Macroom. The original tower-house was probably of 16th-century date but was enlarged and converted into a mansion in the early 19th century. The building burnt to the ground in 1922 but stood for many years adjoining the school which was built in c. 1954. The ruined mansion was demolished in the early 1980s when an extension to the school was built on the site.
Two test-trenches were opened on the site of the proposed extention. No archaeological deposits or features were uncovered in the course of the testing.
