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Metalworking site

Kilrussane, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Metalworking site, Kilrussane, 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
Kilrussane
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.97794, -8.36989
SMR number
CO064-170----

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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)
  • 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

This metalworking site was excavated in 2001 in advance of the construction of the N8 Glanmire-Watergrasshill Bypass and comprised five bowl furnaces and a possible forging pit. The furnaces (diam. 0.35-0.45m; max. D 0.16m), which were all truncated, were filled with charcoal-rich deposits and iron slag inclusions and most of them were clay-lined. Analysis of the metallurgical waste indicated that the furnaces were used to smelt iron blooms from bog ore. Two of the furnaces were radiocarbon dated to between 352-42 cal. BC, placing the metalworking site firmly in the Irish Iron Age. According to the excavator (Sherlock 2005a, 18), metallurgical waste analysis indicated that the features may have represented a single season of metalworking activity and this suggestion is supported by the radiocarbon dates returned. Another metalworking site (CO064-175----) was situated c. 530m to the NE. (Sherlock 2003f, 46; Sherlock 2005a)

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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