2012:102 - Clogher/Shanagh/Waterdyke, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork Site name: Clogher/Shanagh/Waterdyke

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 11E0419

Author: GRAHAM HULL

Site type: Possible middle Neolithic settlement and undated features

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 565607m, N 608222m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.224676, -8.503407

Testing of the N73 Clogher Cross – Waterdyke road realignment scheme for Cork County Council located five sites. These are: Shanagh 1 (166021 109157 undated pits), Shanagh 2 (166207 109266 possible middle Neolithic settlement, below No. 121), Waterdyke 1 (166333 109322 undated pits and post-holes), Waterdyke 2 (166585 109474 undated pits and post-holes) and Waterdyke 3 (Area A 167382 109507, Area B 167500 109563 possible charcoal production pit and hearth) (below Nos 123-5). Shanagh 1 was fully resolved in testing.

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