Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment of Proposed
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CULTURAL HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF PROPOSED WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT OUTFALL AT YOUGHAL CO. CORK ON BEHALF OF ATKINS CONSULTING ENGINEERS Moore Marine Job Number: M09CO04 Licence Numbers: 09D56 & 09R152 Authors: Eoghan Kieran & Benen Hayden Date: January 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 SCOPE OF WORKS .......................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Purpose of the Project .................................................................................................................. 1 2 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROJECT ................................................................................................ 3 2.1 Description of the Existing Sewerage System ............................................................................... 3 2.2 Description of the proposed works .............................................................................................. 3 2.2 Site Layout/Location details ......................................................................................................... 3 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE EXISTING ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................. 5 3.1 Solid Geology ................................................................................................................................ 5 3.2 Soil Type ....................................................................................................................................... 5 3.3 Landscape ..................................................................................................................................... 5 4 ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ...................................................................... 6 4.1 Mesolithic Period .......................................................................................................................... 6 4.2 Neolithic Period ............................................................................................................................ 6 4.3 Bronze Age .................................................................................................................................... 7 4.4 The Iron Age / Early Historic Period .............................................................................................. 7 4.5 Later Historic Period ..................................................................................................................... 9 4.6 Lewis Topographical Dictionary .................................................................................................. 12 5 BASELINE DATA ............................................................................................................................ 22 5.1 Register of Monuments and Places ............................................................................................ 22 5.2 Topographical Files of the National Museum of Ireland ............................................................ 26 5.3 Previous archaeological fieldwork in the area ............................................................................ 28 5.4 Place-name evidence .................................................................................................................. 30 5.5 Historic Maps .............................................................................................................................. 31 5.5.1 First Edition Ordnance Survey, 1845 .................................................................................. 31 5.5.2 Second Edition Ordnance Survey, 1902 .............................................................................. 32 5.6 Aerial Image ................................................................................................................................ 32 5.7 Record of Protected Structures .................................................................................................. 34 5.8 Ports and Harbours Archive ........................................................................................................ 39 5.9 National Shipwreck Inventory .................................................................................................... 40 6 ARCHAEO-GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY ................................................................................................. 51 6.1 Survey Methodology and Equipment ......................................................................................... 51 6.2 Data Processing and Analysis ..................................................................................................... 51 6.2.2 Side Scan Sonar ................................................................................................................... 51 6.2.3 Magnetometer ................................................................................................................... 51 7. RESULTS OF GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY .............................................................................................. 52 7.2 Dunnes Park Survey .................................................................................................................... 52 7.2 Ferry Point Survey ...................................................................................................................... 54 8 SITE VISIT ..................................................................................................................................... 57 8 DISCUSSION & RECOMMENDATIONS ........................................................................................... 67 8.1 Discussion of proposed pipeline location ................................................................................... 67 8.2 Assessment of Potential Impacts ................................................................................................ 67 8.3 Recommendations ...................................................................................................................... 67 APPENDIX 1 BIBLIOGRAPHY .......................................................................................................... 69 APPENDIX 2 LEGISLATIVE BACKGROUND ...................................................................................... 71 APPENDIX 3 IMPACT ASSESSMENT & THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCE ...................................... 74 APPENDIX 4 SIDE SCAN SONAR OF ANOMALIES RECOMMENDED FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION 77 APPENDIX 5 DUNNNES PARK OUTFALL SIDE SCAN SONAR MOSAIC ............................................ 121 APPENDIX 6 DUNNNES PARK OUTFALL CONTACT LOCATIONS .................................................... 122 APPENDIX 7 FERRY POINT PROPOSED OUTFALL SIDE SCAN SONAR MOSAIC ............................... 123 APPENDIX 8 FERRY POINT PROPOSED OUTFALL CONTACT LOCATIONS ....................................... 124 APPENDIX 9 MAGNETOMETER CONTACT MAP............................................................................ 125 TABLE OF FIGURES Figure 1: Extract from Discovery Series Map # 84 with site location highlighted ................................... 2 Figure 2. Site development plan .............................................................................................................. 4 Figure 3. Pacata Hibernia Map of Youghal circa 1587, from Orme 1966 .............................................. 10 Figure 4. Extract from County Cork RMP Map CO67 showing development areas in red .................... 24 Figure 5. Extract from RMP Map for Cork with a 1 km buffer around area of proposed development. Source Ordnance Survey Ireland (2006) ................................................................................. 25 Figure 6. Extract from First Edition Ordnance Survey, 1845 ................................................................. 31 Figure 7. Second Edition Ordnance Survey, 1902.................................................................................. 32 Figure 8. Overall project magnetometer anomaly contact map (larger scale reproduction in Appendix 10) ........................................................................................................................................... 54 TABLE OF PLATES Plate 1. Aerial image of site taken in 2005 with survey area highlighted............................................ 33 Plate 2. Facade of RPS 20823079 ........................................................................................................ 35 Plate 3. Facade and background of RPS 20823079 ............................................................................. 35 Plate 4. Youghal Pier Head RPS 20823150 ........................................................................................... 36 Plate 5. Seawall RPS 20823004 looking North from Dunnes Park Outfall ........................................... 37 Plate 6. Seawall south of 20823004 Youghal Town ............................................................................. 38 Plate 7. Detail of RPS 20823004 seawall ............................................................................................. 38 Plate 8. Single side scan sonar anomaly recorded at Dunnes Park ..................................................... 53 Plate 9. View of docklands north of Green’s Quay at low tide looking south ..................................... 58 Plate 10. View of