County: Cork Site name: Horgan's Quay, Ballinamought West/Montenotte
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO074-117---- Licence number: 18E0431
Author: Avril Purcell
Site type: 19th-century railway station
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 568375m, N 572202m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.901107, -8.459708
This is the third and final phase of investigations carried out in advance of development at the historic site of the Penrose Quay Railway Station, Cork, since 2018. The remains of three stone turntables were excavated, two were identified during testing in 2018 and the third was identified to their east during this excavation and survived in a ruinous condition. The two western examples were originally located with the large Goods Depot building and the eastern one immediately to its east. The three were of limestone construction and between 3.1m and 3.3m internal diameter. The western one had a stepped interior similar to those previously excavated in the Goods Depot. The other two were slightly less substantial but had a large squared limestone block centrally at their interior. Cartographic evidence suggest the turntables were no longer in use after the opening of the Glanmire Road Station (now Kent Station) in the 1890s.
64 Fr Mathew Rd, Turner's Cross, Cork
