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belonging to the Woods family. A total of fourteen box tombs were repaired under supervision. Two test-trenches were mechanically excavated across the site in advance of its proposed redevelopment. The collapsed and backfilled remains of a cellar probably associated with an early 19th-century building, no longer extant, were revealed. Archaeological monitoring of the ‘Eastern Strategic Link Water Main Replacement Scheme A’ water mains replacement works in part of the Zone of Archaeological Notification of the historic town of Cork (CO074- 034001-) was carried out in February-May 2021. Archaeological material was noted in a number of areas – this took the form of walls at the northern and southern ends of Leitrim Street. These were of 18th- or very early 19th-century date. A metalled surface was located in Pine Street. This produced a single sherd of 17th-century pottery from its surface. The surface is likely to be of late 17th or 18th century in date. This surface was mostly below the level of the new water mains and remains in the western baulk. A smaller section of metalling was located in Devonshire Street. Masonry culverts were located in Devonshire Street and Coburg Street. Some of these had been reused with the insertion of plastic piping in the interior. A small area of cobbled street surface was uncovered at the junction of Devonshire Street, Leitrim Street and Coburg Street. This is 19th or early 20th century in date. Investigations undertaken at the development site on Lower John Street took the form of two 1.5m wide, roughly east to west aligned, linear test trenches. The test trenches were excavated within the upstanding, disused warehouse-type structures which currently occupy the site. Trench 1 was the more southerly of the two trenches. The western portion of the site was located within a substantial scarp into a sandstone rock face and, as such, the western portion of the site possessed a negligible archaeological potential. Introduced fill material predominantly comprising varying sized sandstone fragments, but also rubble, brick, gravel and early modern detritus (e.g. late 19th-century ceramic sherds, ceramic pipe fragments and occasional animal bone) underlay the modern concrete slab to varying depths in both trenches. The introduced fill within Trench 1 was more varied and directly overlay natural sandstone bedrock which was revealed at depths of between 0.9m (east end) and 0.6m (west end). In Trench 2, the introduced fill material was more homogeneous, comprising a largely sterile mix of fragmented sandstone and clayey silt. Bedrock was revealed within Trench 2 at depths of between 2.3m (east end) and 1.4m (west end). No artefacts, features or deposits of archaeological significance were revealed during the testing programme. Archaeological monitoring was carried out in August and September 2019 of water pipe laying along St Patrick’s Quay, Camden Place and Camden Quay, Cork City within the North East and North Central City
Shandon Street, Cork
10E0088
Leitrim Street, Pine Street, Coburg Street, Devonshire Street, North City Link Road, Cork
18E0416
29-30 Lower John Street, Cork
18E0478
St Patrick’s Quay, Camden Place and Camden
19E0432
Integrated Urban Strategy, Shandon, Cork Baseline archaeological assessment
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