Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Greenfield (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
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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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
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.