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House - Bronze Age

Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - Bronze Age, Mitchelstown, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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