House - Bronze Age

The National Monuments Service's description

This is one of three house (CO010-065----, CO010-067----) which were excavated in 2004 in advance of the construction of the Mitchelstown inner relief road. This subcircular house (10.7m N-S; 10m E-W) comprised a slot-trench with an internal ring of nine post-holes. According to the excavator (Cotter 2007, 65), one of the post-holes had almost certainly been destroyed by a post-medieval boundary ditch that ran E-W across the S end of the monument. The entrance (Wth c. 1m) faced to the E. This house was located c. 1m to the S of one of the other houses (CO010-065----) and truncated the other (CO010-067----). According to Cotter (ibid.), a dense cluster of stake-holes, occurring in the area where the three houses overlapped, may have represented earlier transitory activity. Radiocarbon dates of 1431-1267 cal. BC (2-sigma) were returned from charcoal recovered from the fill of a structural slot-trench of this house (Cotter 2008, 15). (Cotter 2007, 65; 2008)

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).

Date of upload: 22 December 2009