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Excavation - miscellaneous

Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, 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
52.27147, -8.29128
SMR number
CO019-171----

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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

On an E-facing slope, on the N bank of the Gradoge River and c. 13m to the NW of a burnt mound (CO019-170----). This pit (0.6m x 0.5m; D 0.3m), which had concave sides, was excavated in 2004 in advance of the construction of the N8 Mitchelstown relief road. Two flat stones had been placed in the round-bottomed base of the pit and three pottery vessels, filled with coarse sand, had been placed on top of these stones. The vessel types comprised a cordoned urn, a handled and footed facemask cup and a tub-shaped pot. The uppermost of the three fills in the pit contained charcoal, a sample of which was radiocarbon dated to the Bronze Age (1916-1696 cal. BC). A stake-hole was also found 1.1m NW of the pit. (Sutton 2006d)

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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