Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cave
Connaberry, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Connaberry
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.16469, -8.46077
- SMR number
- CO026-150----
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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
On E side of Awbeg River limestone gorge, S of Castletownroche. One of three caves (9807, 9808) investigated in 1938 and 1940 (Gwynn et al. 1942); listed by Dowd (1997, 31) as 'Foley Cave'. Fissure high on side of gorge provided entrance (L 1.5m) to small chamber (L 4m; Wth 2m) from the back of which ran passage and narrow gallery (see plan Dowd ibid., 34, fig. 3.11). Outer fissure and chamber excavated. In these the 'superficial deposits' (D c. 0.35m) produced charcoal, fragment of burnt bone, small baked clay ball and fragments of iron; 'intermediate and deep deposits' produced wide range of Pleistocene fauna.
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
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.