b. Cork City Council will seek to develop an archaeological strategy for the city, to include management and protection of strategic research locations. c. Cork City Council will seek to develop an archaeological GIS for archaeological investigations undertaken in the city. d. Cork City Council will seek to ensure that the tourism strategy within the medieval historic core and in areas/setting of historic monuments should draw on its archaeological heritage and should reflect a strong and authentic sense of place. Archaeological context The Shandon IUS project area is located within both the ZAP (see Figure 5 below) and ZoN which surround the medieval historic core of Cork (CO074-034001-). There are eleven recorded archaeological sites (as recorded by the ASI) located within the boundary of the project area (see Figure 3 & Table 1 below). The majority of these sites are clustered around the church of St. Anne (CO074-033003-) in the centre of the project area and include its associated graveyards (CO074-033001-) and (CO074-033002-), the recorded site of a leper hospital (CO074-033004-) at the former North Infirmary site, Skiddy’s Almshouse ( CO074-105----), and the recorded location of Shandon Castle (CO074-032----) at the site of the present day Firkin Crane Centre. The other recorded sites include the site of a medieval castle (CO074-030001-) in the Blarney Street area (the precise location of which remains unknown) , the former site of St. Mary’s church (CO074-031002-) and graveyard (CO074-031001-) at the southern end of Shandon Street and the 18 th -century Queen Anne house (CO074-107---- ) on Pope’s Quay. There have been numerous archaeological investigations undertaken within the area in recent decades and these are described in further detail below. A further six recorded archaeological sites are located within 100m of the project area (see Figure 4 & Table 2 below).
Figure 3 : Graphic depicting recorded archaeological sites (as recorded by ASI) within the boundary of the Shandon IUS project area (Source: Government of Ireland, Historic Environment Viewer)
Integrated Urban Strategy, Shandon, Cork Baseline archaeological assessment
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