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County Cork, Munster
Fermoy garrison town Blackwater banks
Riverbank Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: clay pipes.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1904 historic-map era
Town built by John Anderson from the 1790s around one of the largest British army barracks in Ireland, straddling the Blackwater; river margins and barrack-era tipping grounds carry military and town refuse.
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