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House - Bronze Age

Ballybrowney Lower, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of House - Bronze Age, Ballybrowney Lower, 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
Ballybrowney Lower
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.06748, -8.30464
SMR number
CO044-073011-

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This is one of a group of three houses (see CO044-0730009-, CO044-073-010-) which was excavated in 2003 in advance of the construction of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass. This oval house (diam. 6.9m E-W; 5.5m N-S) comprised a slot-trench and five internal post-holes. Tree-root disturbance may have destroyed another internal post-hole and a portion of the slot-trench whose full extent could not be established. Another post-hole may have held a supporting post for the outer wall. The entrance, which was marked by two substantial post-holes, faced SSE. An elongated porch-like structure extended (L c. 0.7m) from the entrance to the SSE for a distance of c. 0.7m. This porch comprised two trenches that terminated in two further post-holes. Inside the entrance two smaller post-holes may have been part of a further, internal, elaboration of the entrance. Though differing in some aspects, this house was, according to the excavator, broadly similar and contemporaneous with the other two houses, one of which (CO044-073009-) was dated to the Bronze Age (Cotter 2006c 15). (Cotter 2006a, 34-5; 2006c)

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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