County: Wicklow Site name: Castletownshend
Sites and Monuments Record No.: None Licence number: 19E0176; 19R0048
Author: Yvonne Whitty
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 518589m, N 531436m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.529638, -9.173375
Irish Water is progressing sewerage schemes at untreated towns/villages in Cork as part of its UTAS programme and to upgrade wastewater treatment facilities. This report details the results of monitoring under licence 19E0183 and metal detection licence 19R0066 of the Site Investigation (SI) works in advance of a proposed sewerage scheme, pumping station and waste water treatment plant construction at Castletownshend. This is a village about 8 km from Skibbereen, in County Cork which developed around a small 17th-century castle built by Richard Townsend, whose descendants still reside there.
The SI trenches within the village of Castletownshend indicate that the stratigraphy dates to the late 18th-19th century when the extant buildings were constructed. Given the turbulent period in Irish history the author metal-detected the material from the SI Trenches for military artefact retrieval dating to the Cromwellian conquest. No stray finds were recovered from any of the material excavated from the slit trenches.
Unit 10 Riverside Business Centre, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow
