Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Killydonoghoe, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killydonoghoe
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.96053, -8.38664
- SMR number
- CO064-169----
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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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (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
On a gently sloping hill in undulating hilly terrain, a pit-burial was uncovered during archaeological monitoring on the N8 Glanmire-Watergrasshill Bypass. The burial consisted of the cremated bone within a pit (diam. 0.35m; D 0.12m). Analysis of the bones found that they represented the remains of one adult. One sample of cremated bone provided a radiocarbon date of 2895 ± 40 BP. Two other pit-burials (CO064-168----; CO064-166----) are located 260m and 520m to the S, respectively. A possible Bronze Age house (CO064-167----) is located 300m to the S. (Sherlock 2003e, 46; 2005b, 51, 59, 88)
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
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.