2014:199 - SHANBALLY, Cork

Testing was required to inform the development of a waste water treatment plant. Two test trenches were excavated in the vicinity of the two recorded monuments, CO087-040 and CO087-041. The trenches were located outside the known extent of both monuments, tangentially to the outer circumference of the demarcation circles/buffer zones of both monuments.

No archaeological finds or features were revealed in Trench 1, i.e. the area to the east of the demarcation circle for monument CO078-041. Two features were identified in Trench 2 on the eastern side of CO078-040. These were both isolated features of unknown date, however the depth at which they occur (c. 0.35m below the surface) indicates that they may be associated with the adjacent ringfort. Such findings indicate that features associated with the ringfort may occur outside the original bank and ditch of the enclosure, consequently it was recommended that no element of the proposal be excavated/constructed within the demarcation circle for this monument.