2022:563 - FERMOY: Connolly Street, Cork

The site, which is located on Connolly Street in the centre of Fermoy Town, measures 8m wide by 13m deep and is currently a brown field site devoid of and surface structures. The site is currently covered in 804 stone and has been devoid of any structure for many years.

Results of monitoring groundsworks:
A thin layer of 804 stone material was removed by machine using a flat bucket under the direction of the archaeologist. This exposed a layer of brick, stone, rubble and mortar intermixed with a dark brown black silty soil. Modern plastics, corrugated sheeting and rubbish were also present throughout the building rubble. In the south-eastern corner of the site the decaying frames of over 25 bicycles were removed. Over 2.75m of material was removed from the northern half of the site while 2m was removed from the southern half of the site due to the severe slope on site as the gradient went from south to north. At this depth the natural subsoil was exposed a compact orange red sandy silt.

No archaeology was found.