County: Cork Site name: Myross Woods, Brade, Leap
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO142-018001 Licence number: 21E0151
Author: Stuart D. Elder - Heritech Ireland Ltd.
Site type: Graveyard
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 519800m, N 536300m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.573528, -9.157034
An 18th/19th-century Church and Graveyard is situated at the end of a rough track leading eastwards from the L-4227-0 Road along the ridge, within an area known as Myross Woods.
A single continuous trench measuring up to 0.5m wide (0.3m at the base) and 0.7m deep, was excavated mechanically along the centreline of the vehicular tracks to facilitate a Fibre Optic Communications cable between the public road and a Transmitter Station situated within the woodland. For the most part, the trench was excavated through previously disturbed and redeposited local mudstone along the approximately 715m of track through the woods, which in some places necessitated the breaking of bedrock where it was encountered close to the surface. Along the approximately 605m of the church access track, the bedrock was overlain by dark yellowish brown clay silt varying in depth between 0.1m and 0.3m.
The Zone of Notification (Section 12) for the Graveyard (CO142-018001) extends 60m from its centre point, and approximately 47 linear metres of trench would fall within this zone. Although the trench came to within 11m of the southern enclosing wall, there was no evidence for undisturbed soil horizons which may have contained archaeological material and/or extramural burials.
Throughout the totality of the works, nothing of archaeological significance was noted.
Gurteen Cottage, Gurteen, Kilmichael, Macroom, Co. Cork
