Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Gortnahomna Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnahomna Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.91434, -8.04742
- SMR number
- CO077-092----
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Shown on 5 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
Two features were discovered during archaeological monitoring of topsoil removal in advance of a housing development to the E of Castlemartyr; these were excavated in 2004. One feature comprised an irregular pit (D c. 0.4m) containing charcoal and some Neolithic pottery. The second feature consisted of a rectangular spread (1.85m x 1.1m; D 0.14m) of charcoal, possibly the result of in situ burning. Deep ploughing is likely to have truncated the upper levels of the features exposed and any other associated features. Two other features were also discovered but excavation confirmed that these were of modern date. (Lane 2007b, 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
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.