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Excavation - miscellaneous

Greenfield (Muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Greenfield, 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
Greenfield (Muskerry East By.)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.87860, -8.62399
SMR number
CO073-144----

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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 pit was discovered in 2001 during an archaeological testing programme in advance of the N22 Ballincollig Bypass. Subsequent excavation in 2002 revealed an isolated subcircular pit (1m N-S x 0.9m; D 0.17m) with two separate fills. The primary fill was a loose, charcoal-stained, clayey silt containing a high quantity of heat-shattered stone. The secondary fill at the E of the pit consisted of a small pocket of redeposited subsoil. According to the excavator (Danaher 2004h, 79), though the primary fill contained a charcoal-enriched and heat-shattered stone fill, there was no evidence to indicate that this pit may have functioned as a hearth. (Danaher 2002a; 2004h, 79)

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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