Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Pepperhill, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pepperhill
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.22369, -8.69460
- SMR number
- CO016-226002-
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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, 179; pers. comm. M. Gowen). Solitary bowl-shaped pit (diam. 0.48m; D 0.2m) with blackened charcoal-flecked fill. Neolithic house (9817) c. 20m to N.
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
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.