2025:201 - Ballinrea 1, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: Ballinrea 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: E005503
Author: Siobhan McNamara, Rubicon Heritage Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: The Glen Distillery Business Park, Old Whitechurch Road, Kilnap, Cork T23 HY01
Site type: Boundary ditch, pits, furrow, natural features
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 572503m, N 564874m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.835418, -8.398987
Excavation at Ballinrea 1, as part of the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Project,
Co. Cork, revealed a post-medieval to early modern field boundary ditch and an associated cultivation furrow, along with currently undated pits as well as several naturally occurring features such as root holes and tree holes.
A total of 14 artefacts/potential artefacts including a flint flake, a corroded iron object, post-medieval pottery and a ceramic marble/bottle stop were recovered from topsoil during the excavation. Archaeological materials in the form of charred plant remains (cereal grain and charcoal) were also recovered.
Area A: 572503, 564874; Area B: 572500, 564840 (cutting centroid).