Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Garrynacole, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrynacole
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.08230, -8.29654
- SMR number
- CO044-084----
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
Five large pits were excavated in advance of the construction of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass in 2003. All five pits were in close proximity to each other and were morphologically similar, being irregular in shape. One of the pits cut two others. Fragments of animal bone were retrieved from two of the pits. According to the excavator (Cotter 2006d, 60), the function of the pits was not apparent. Three charcoal samples were recovered from the fills of three of the pits and two of these returned dates of AD 370-540 cal. and AD 430-630 cal. (Cotter 2006e, 31-2). (Cotter 2006d, 60; 2006e)
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
- Charcoal-making siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.