2023:247 - Ballynoe to Newton Cross Water Rehabilitation Scheme, Ballinlegane, Ballynoe and Ballinscurloge, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: Ballynoe to Newton Cross Water Rehabilitation Scheme, Ballinlegane, Ballynoe and Ballinscurloge
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO046-032--- 19th century church & (CO046-033) medieval church and ecclesiastical enclosure.
Licence number: 23E0208
Author: Graham Hull
Author/Organisation Address: TVAS (Ireland) Ltd Ahish, Ballinruan, Crusheen, Co. Clare
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 593390m, N 589585m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.058184, -8.096389
Archaeological monitoring was proposed for parts of the Ballynoe to Newton Cross Water Rehabilitation Scheme, in the townlands of Ballinlegane, Ballynoe and Ballinscurloge, where the scheme passed through the Zones Of Notification of Recorded Monument CO046-032—, St Catherine’s Catholic Church (19th century), and close to a medieval church and earlier ecclesiastical enclosure (CO046-033).
In the event, due to the presence of bedrock immediately beneath the road surface, the pipes were laid by pipe bursting, where the new pipe is inserted into the existing pipe, meaning that no new trench excavation is required. Occasional pits are excavated to the surface of the existing pipe to facilitate the new pipe being laid.
Archaeological monitoring of these pits within Ballynoe village was carried out in May 2023. In all cases the material revealed by the excavation was simply the backfill of the previous pipe trench, consisting of mixed broken bedrock from when the rock was blasted to create the trench.
No evidence of any archaeological features, deposits or artefacts was observed in the parts of the scheme subject to monitoring.