Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Ashgrove (fermoy By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ashgrove (fermoy By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.15347, -8.65863
- SMR number
- CO033-084----
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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, site 1/23/3; pers. comm. M. Gowen). Several features revealed in area 4m x 3m: hearth (0.4m x 0.4m; D 0.05m) filled with charcoal-rich soil; pit (0.8m x 0.5m; D 0.18m) filled with charcoal-rich clay; two post-holes (diam. 0.18m; D 0.18m: diam. 0.2m; D 0.13m) just W of hearth.
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
- Workhouseunder 1 mi
- Fever hospitalunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.