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2016:788 - FOILAKILLY, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork

Site name: FOILAKILLY

Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO130-055

Licence number: 16E0583

Author: Aidan Harte, Munster Archaeology

Author/Organisation Address: Butlerstown, Bandon, Co. Cork

Site type: Children’s burial ground

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

ITM: E 486281m, N 542847m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.626597, -9.642547

Test trenching was carried out in between 31 October and 4 November 2016, within the townland of Foilakilly, Co. Cork. Six key-hole test trenches were excavated by hand. Evidence was found for 19th-century domestic settlement but nothing indicative of burials.

Nothing of archaeological significance was identified.


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