Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hearth
Lisheens, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisheens
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.87865, -8.63235
- SMR number
- CO073-129----
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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
In the course of advance archaeological testing for the N22 Ballincollig Bypass a spread of dark-brown/black sandy silt containing charcoal was discovered. Excavation revealed the deposit to be c. 1.4m in diameter and c. 0.03m deep and it overlay a smaller deposit (diam. c. 1.2m; D 0.05m) of red/brown silty clay. (Murphy 2003f, 47)
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
- House - Neolithicunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.