Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Structure
Ballybrowney Lower, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrowney Lower
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.06720, -8.30484
- SMR number
- CO044-073012-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Excavation in 2003 in advance of the construction of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass revealed the remains of a structure represented by an arc (C c. 3m) of stake-holes (av. diam. 0.1m; D 0.1m). The structure was cut by a shallow slot-trench of similar dimensions. According to the excavator (Cotter 2006a, 35), these features seemed to represent a windbreak erected to shelter activity which took place immediately to the NE where two distinct groups of stake-holes occurred. These stake-holes may represent a cooking spit. No hearth was found but a pit containing heat-shattered stones was revealed (ibid., 35). (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
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.