2016:181 - Carrigboy, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork Site name: Carrigboy

Sites and Monuments Record No.: None Licence number: 16E0242

Author: Tony Miller

Site type: No archaeological significance

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 529685m, N 563912m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.823024, -9.020015

Test excavation was carried out on an extension to a stone quarry at Carrgboy, Terelton, Co Cork. A total of 5 trenches were excavated in a field of improved grazing to the south of the quarry pit. Between 0.2m and 0.3m of a mid-brown topsoil overlay a stony orange boulder clay and bedrock. A sixth trench was opened to the west in a small, boggy field where c. 0.4m of a peaty topsoil overlay a white, stony boulder clay. No archaeological features or finds noted.

Tooreen, Dunmanway, Co. Cork