Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Ballynadrideen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynadrideen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.31010, -8.68325
- SMR number
- CO007-129----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Discovered in 1986 during construction of Bruff-Mallow gas pipeline (Gowen 1988, 107-8, site 1/12/1 TR). Isolated oval pit (2.3m x 0.9m; max. D 0.42m) with gently sloping sides and rounded base; base deeper at NE end and heavily burnt in situ, burning overlaid by charcoal-rich fill. Charred plant remains, 'the residue from a six-row hulled barley crop' (ibid.), recovered from fill suggest pit was domestic in function; presence of common cultivated oat and short-grained bread wheat in sample 'suggestive of a late, rather than early, date for this pit' (ibid.).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.