Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
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
- 52.06612, -8.30463
- SMR number
- CO044-079----
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
Following archaeological testing carried out in 2002 in advance of the route of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass a kidney-shaped pit (0.44m N-S; 0.3m E-W; D 0.2m) was fully excavated in 2003. The pit, which cut into natural subsoil, contained a loose, mid-brown, silty clay with occasional stones and charcoal. Small stones were concentrated at the sides of the pit and, according to the excavator (Murphy 2006d, 35), it is possible that these stones may have been used as packing stones. The charcoal was identified as oak and was dated to 1100-790 cal. BC (ibid., 36). (Murphy 2006b, 35; Murphy 2006d)
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
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.