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Excavation - miscellaneous

Rath-Healy, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Rath-Healy, 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
Rath-Healy
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.14833, -8.26595
SMR number
CO035-139----

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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

Discovered in 2002 and subsequently excavated in 2003 in advance of the construction of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass. The excavation revealed ten pits and a burnt spread with associated stake- and post-holes. The pits varied in size and shape. Charcoal samples taken from three pits returned radiocarbon dates of 880-790 cal. BC, 1140-920 cal. BC and 1300-1030 cal. BC, respectively (Murphy 2006n, 35). The spread (0.48m x 0.6m; D 0.21m) was subrectangular in plan and consisted of a loose, medium-brown, silty sand with oxidised areas, occasional small stones and charcoal. Its association with four post-holes and one stake-hole suggested that it may have represented a hearth (Murphy 2006n, 73). (Murphy 2006g, 72-3; 2006n)

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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