2019:329 - Lettertinlish, Tragumna, Skibbereen, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork Site name: Lettertinlish, Tragumna, Skibbereen

Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO142-043 Licence number: 19E0357

Author: Tony Miller

Site type: Vicinity of castle site; no archaeology found

Period/Dating:

ITM: E 515213m, N 533930m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.551556, -9.222623

The landowner applied for planning permission to build a cattle shed and access track partly within the Zone of Archaeological Potential of the site of Lettertinlish castle. The exact location of the castle is unknown as it was last known to be standing at the end of the seventeenth century. Seven test trenches were excavated along the route of the track and over the footprint of the proposed shed which is located in a level field of pasture with a rock outcrop to the north. The stratigraphy consisted of between 0.15m and 0.2m of a loose, light-brown topsoil overlying areas of bedrock and a very compact mid-brown gravel. No archaeology was found.

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