County: Cork Site name: Barryscourt
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 21E0417
Author: Eamonn Cotter
Site type: Isolated pits, ditch
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 582919m, N 571890m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.898901, -8.248198
Archaeological testing was carried out across a 4.5ha greenfield site following on a planning application for a proposed agricultural development. There was no known archaeological monument on the site, and just one, a 19th-century limekiln, adjacent to it. A geophysical survey had identified numerous anomalies in the soil, many of which were identified as being potentially archaeological in origin.
Twenty-five trenches were excavated. Only three isolated archaeological features were found, namely two small pits and a shallow linear ditch which may have been a drainage ditch or a minor field boundary.
Ballynanelagh, Rathcormac, Co. Cork
