County: Cork Site name: Cork Lower Harbour Main Drainage, Carraigaline
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 17E0050
Author: Ross MacLeod, Rubicon Heritage Services Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 575660m, N 563189m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.820418, -8.353061
Monitoring was undertaken as part of the Cork Lower Harbour Sewage Project at Carrigaline and Ringaskiddy, between March 2017 and August 2018, on behalf of Ward and Burke Construction Ltd, who were contracted by Ervia. Monitoring was undertaken in relation to Ervia’s proposals to provision collection systems and wastewater treatment facilities in the Cork Lower Harbour area.
The Cork Lower Harbour Sewage Project includes the population/industrial centres of Cobh, Carrigaline (including Crosshaven), Passage West/Monkstown (including Glenbrook) and Ringaskiddy (including Shanbally and Coolmore). This report presents the results of works within Lot 3, limited to the settlements of Carrigaline and Ringaskiddy (including Shanbally and Coolmore) and relevant connections between them. Lot 1 relates directly to the new Sewage Treatment Plant at Shanbally and Lot 2 includes Passage West and Monkstown (including Glenbrook) and the route of the R610. Both Lots 1 and 2 were monitored under Licence 17E0050.
The existing sewer network serving the Lower Cork Harbour area mainly comprises combined sewer systems. Wastewater from Cobh, Carrigaline, Passage West/Monkstown and Ringaskiddy is currently discharged untreated into the Harbour. The Cork Lower Harbour Main Drainage Project was the subject of an initial Cultural Heritage Assessment during the EIS, which was updated by Moore Group (Quinn, B., 2015) to address alterations (146B). The mitigation measures undertaken and recorded in this report have been derived from the EIS mitigation measures and the An Bord Pleanála (ABP) conditions of planning (ABP 04.YA0005).
No features of archaeological significance were identified during the course of groundworks associated with Lot 3 of the Lower Harbour Sewage Project. A variety of 19th-century features of industrial origin and cultural heritage interest were recorded in Carrigaline and Ringaskiddy, but nothing of archaeological significance was discovered during the project.
Reference:
Quinn, B. 2015 Cultural heritage. Cork Harbour Main Drainage Scheme, Environmental Impact Assessment, Proposed Waste Water Treatment Plant at Shanbally, Co. Cork. Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment by Moore Group on behalf of Nicholas O’Dwyer Ltd.
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