2025:206 - Ballyhemiken 2, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: Ballyhemiken 2
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: E005457
Author: Philip Quilty, Rubicon Archaeology Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: The Glen Distillery Business Park, Old Whitechurch Road, Kilnap, Cork T23 HY01
Site type: Charcoal-production pit, pit, field boundaries
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 573563m, N 564403m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.831236, -8.383570
The M28 Cork Ringaskiddy Project is an approved road development, under the terms of the National Monuments (Amendments) Act 1930–2014 and is the subject of directions issued by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (ref. A00080). The project is being progressed by Cork County Council (CCC) on behalf of Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) and will comprise the construction of approximately 12.5km of new road linking the N40 Bloomfield Interchange to the east of Ringaskiddy, in County Cork.
A total of 1230.39m² (consisting of Area A‐ 337.45m², Area B‐ 779.13m² and Area C113.81m²) was stripped of topsoil during Stage (ii) pre‐excavation services at the site in June 2022 and, subsequently, it was recommended that all archaeological remains on the site be subject to Stage (iii) excavation as they would be directly impacted by the construction of the road.
The preliminary assessment of the excavation results indicate that there were two phases of activity at Ballyhemiken 2. Some of the earliest activity is likely to be early to late medieval in date (Phase I), consisting of a large charcoal-production pit and several nearby pits. Levelled field boundaries and an early modern trackway were also present on site (Phase II).
2a: 573563, 564403; 2b: 573611, 564388; 2c: 573628, 564449 (cutting centroid).