2016:685 - CURRAGH, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: CURRAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO023-322
Licence number: 16E0173
Author: Eamonn Cotter
Author/Organisation Address: Ballynanelagh, Rathcormac, Co. Cork
Site type: Enclosure
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 537887m, N 604062m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.184858, -8.908327
Test trenching was carried out on this site on foot of a planning application to construct a dwelling house. The aim of the testing was to establish the exact location of a circular enclosure which had been identified by aerial photography in 1989 as a crop mark in a pasture field. The crop mark suggested it was a bi-vallate enclosure. The enclosure was not visible at ground level.
The outer fosse was found in two test trenches—it was 1m wide at the top, 0.15m deep and 0.8m wide at the base. The trajectory of the fosse as revealed in the test trenches, and comparison with the aerial photos, suggest that the enclosure was sub-rectangular in plan rather than circular and was approximately 25–30m east-west in diameter.