Location
License No. 04E1260
Description
Skiddy’s Almshouse, Shandon, Cork
This AD 1718 almshouse is being refurbished as a social housing scheme. The building is located to the east of St Anne's Church and graveyard, Shandon. Renovation included the lowering of the basement floor level by 0.25m. Manual removal of the stone slabs and underlying soil was monitored. Following reduction of the floor level, the dividing walls were underpinned by excavating 0.3m deep, 1m2 pits which were subsequently filled with concrete. The soil removed throughout was featureless orange-brown clay with occasional stones. Sandstone bedrock was exposed during excavation of the underpinning pits. No finds or features of an archaeological nature were recorded. Three test-trenches were excavated to the rear of the standing buildings at this site. Stratigraphy consisted of 0.2 – 0.3m of stony soil over red sandstone bedrock. No archaeological finds or features were noted. A number of test-trenches were opened before construction of an apartment building at a development site on the east side of Shandon Hill in the northern suburbs of Cork. This site is located outside the northern end of the zone of archaeological potential surrounding Cork city and was occupied by a number of modern warehouses prior to the commencement of development. The stratigraphy consisted of a shallow deposit of modern overburden overlying the sandstone bedrock. There were no archaeological features or finds recorded during testing at this site. Five test-trenches were excavated at the site of a proposed housing development at the junction of Upper Cattle Market Street and the Glen Ryan Road, in the Shandon/Blarney Street area of the city. Stratigraphy in the trenches consisted of 0.4 – 1.5m (depth of stratigraphy due to natural slope) of 19th/20th-century rubble over pink/brown stony, subsoil. The foundations of 19th-century artisan dwellings were recorded during monitoring of ground reduction. No archaeological finds or features were noted during testing. Four test-trenches were excavated at the site of a proposed development at the north-east corner of Old Market Place, in the Shandon Street area of Cork. The stratigraphy on the site, following demolition of the existing buildings and site clearance, consisted of pink/brown stony subsoil with red sandstone bedrock very close to the surface. No archaeological finds or features were noted during testing. The proposed development site is located within the zone of archaeological potential for St Anne’s Church and graveyard, Shandon. Four test-trenches were excavated across the site in advance of the proposed construction of a parking facility adjacent to St Anne’s Church. No features or finds of archaeological significance were revealed. A licence to carry out monitoring of landscaping and remedial works at St Anne’s Shandon graveyard was granted in September 2008. The neglected and vandalised nature of the graveyard necessitated the work. The overall setting of the graveyard will be enhanced while
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