2021:328 - CARRIGROE, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: CARRIGROE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 21E0196
Author: Tony Miller
Author/Organisation Address: Tooreen, Dunmanway, Co. Cork
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 533117m, N 537412m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.585259, -8.965155
Test excavation was required ahead of the construction of an extension to an existing cattle yard. This was necessary due to the presence of a cluster of 5 recorded monuments c80m to the north-east, centered around an ecclesiastical enclosure and possible church.
The site was near the base of a south-western facing steep slope and just a few kilometers from the south coast.
Two trenches were excavated in a field of improved pasture. Each was 28m long and were c.2.5m apart. The stratigraphy consisted of between 0.05m and 0.15m of a light brown, sandy topsoil which overlay an orange boulder clay. No archaeology was found.
