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Excavation - miscellaneous

Curraheen (Condons and Clongibbon By.), County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Curraheen, 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
Curraheen (Condons and Clongibbon By.)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.24861, -8.30861
SMR number
CO019-136----

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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

Three pits discovered during trial trenching in advance of piggery development (Byrne and Sleeman 1993, 9-10). Pit F1 (2.55m N-S; surviving Wth 0.54m E-W; D 0.24m), with gently sloping E side, contained charcoal-enriched soil and a large quantity of charred cereal grains. Second pit, F2 (Wth 0.88m; surviving D 0.36m), cut through F1 on W side; contained dark loamy fill with charcoal, charred cereal grains and an unidentifiable fragment of animal bone; the type and combination of the cereal grains (oats, barley, breadwheat and possibly rye) suggest Early Christian/medieval date (ibid., 10). Top of F2 truncated by field drain. Portion of third pit, F3, with gently sloping side (D 0.14m), c. 5.3m to SW; this contained dark grey/brown earth with some charcoal (Byrne and Sleeman (1992, 8). Pit burial (11969) found in same field c. 30m to NNW; circular enclosure (13533) c. 30m to SE.

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

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

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