Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Midden
Rathcoursey East, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcoursey East
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.88033, -8.19411
- SMR number
- CO076-040----
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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)
- 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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
On cliff top, at S side of Ballynacorra river, in estuary of Cork Harbour. No visible surface trace. Schlicting (1973, 18) suggests covered by modern debris. Coleman (1938, 42) recorded a layer of oyster shells 104 feet long; 8 feet wide between cliff edge and East Ferry road; and 2 to 3 feet in thickness. A radio-carbon determination of 1050 +/- 50 bp (calibrated date range 780 – 1060 AD) was recovered from oyster shell at this midden (Laboratory: Beta 161649) (Milner & Woodman 2007, 103).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In this instance the entry has been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Date of revision: 25 June 2012
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.