Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - Bronze Age
Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mitchelstown
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.27456, -8.28099
- SMR number
- CO010-067----
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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
This is one of three houses (CO010-065----, CO010-066----) which were excavated in 2004 in advance of the construction of the Mitchelstown inner relief road. This house (10.8m N-S; 9.6m E-W) had been truncated by the other two houses. It comprised a ring of eleven post-holes and, though there was no evidence of a slot-trench, it may have been destroyed during the construction of the other houses. A hearth, comprising a large pit filled with ashes, survived near the centre of the house. The entrance (Wth c. 1m) faced to the E. According to the excavator, a dense cluster of stake-holes, occurring in the area where the three houses overlapped, may have represented earlier transitory activity (Cotter 2007, 65). Radiocarbon dates of 1419-1253 cal. BC and 1240-1213 cal. BC (2-sigma) were returned from charcoal recovered from the fill of the hearth in 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
Nearby in the register
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.