County: Cork Site name: Coolowen, Blarney
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO062-232 & CO062-204 Licence number: 19E0232
Author: Jacinta Kiely, Eachtra Archaeological Projects Ltd
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 562726m, N 577862m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.951597, -8.542251
Testing was undertaken at Coolowen, Blarney, Co Cork on May 13 2019 to fulfill a request for further information from Cork County Council. The planning reference number is 19/04018. Cork County Council requested that pre-development testing be undertaken at the single house site to ensure there is no sub-surface archaeology within the proposed development site associated with CO062-232 Earthwork and CO062-204 Enclosure. There are four archaeological sites, enclosure CO062-233, enclosure CO062-204, earthwork CO062-232 and ringfort CO062-194, located to the west (on the other side of a public road) in Curraghnalaght townland and a fifth site, a standing stone CO062-193, is located 130m to the north.
A total of five test trenches were excavated by machine using a flat grading bucket on the footprint of the proposed foundations of the house. Subsoil was recorded in all the trenches at a depth of 0.3-0.4m below ground level. It was an orange-brown sandy clay with stone inclusions. No archaeological features, stratigraphy or artefacts were recorded in any of the five trenches.
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