County: Kilkenny Site name: COOLMEEN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 11E0341
Author: Maurice F. Hurley
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 654553m, N 633288m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.448329, -7.197479
A low mound was identified as an anomaly with archaeological potential by engineers surveying the proposed route of the gas pipeline. It was roughly oval, with the longer axis north-north-west/south-south-east, c. 48m long by 45m wide and obtaining a maximum height of c. 2m above the general ground level on the north-western side and c. 3–3.5m on the south-eastern side. The natural ground level fell away towards the valley floor, where a stream flows on the south-eastern side of the mound. The mound was not recorded as a feature on any of the OS maps.
Two trenches were excavated at right angles (to form an ‘L’ shape) by mechanical excavator with a 1.5m-wide toothless bucket. Excavation revealed that the mound was a natural geological feature, a natural deposit of gravel in the form of a drumlin or oval gravel ridge. It was not a man-made feature and therefore was of no archaeological significance.
6 Clarence Court, St Luke’s, Cork
