Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit - excavated
Muckridge, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muckridge
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.96719, -7.87840
- SMR number
- CO067-078----
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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 2001 in advance of the construction of the N25 Youghal Bypass revealed an oval-shaped pit (1.7m N-S x 1.3m; D 0.25m). The pit consisted of an upper fill of mid-brown sandy silt which contained medium-sized pebbles and stones with occasional charcoal flecking. The lower fill consisted of a loosely compacted whitish-yellow clay with occasional small pebbles and charcoal flecking and yielded a possible struck flint. The pit was sited near to a late Iron Age structure (CO067-075----) excavated in Muckridge townland in 2001. (Noonan 2001a; 2003g, 55-6) 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
- Pottery worksunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.