Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, N of Owenboy river, on S-facing slope. Situated some 25m NE of a circular enclosure (CO086-048----) this monument was excavated (License No. 92E0104) in advance of quarrying. A summary report of the excavations by C. Mount (http://www.excavations.ie/report/1992/Cork/0001222/) describes the results as follows: 'It was a rectangular banked and ditched enclosure which measured internally 19.5m east-west by 14m north-south and was contiguous to a field boundary on its eastern side. The bank and ditch were sectioned and the bank, which measured 3m in width and 0.6m in maximum height, was found to consist of 2 layers containing a small quantity of animal bone built on the old ground surface. The ditch consisted of a shallow U-shaped cut 2m in width at the top and up to 0.5m in depth. It contained 2 layers of fill. Where it met the field boundary it was found to end at a solid vertical face of bed-rock which was stratified under the old ground surface and the stone and earthen field boundary. Therefore the enclosure post-dates the construction of the field boundary. The interior of the site was found to contain no features of any kind. It consisted of a layer of brown almost stone-free loam to a depth of 0.6m and appeared to be a cultivation horizon. The finds from the site consisted mainly of post-medieval pottery and parts of clay pipes so that the site would appear to date to the 18th century or later.' (Mount 1992; Power 1994, no. 5407)

Updated by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 13 August 2015

References

Power, D. 1994 Archaeological inventory of county Cork, Vol. 2: East and South Cork. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Mount, C. 1992 ‘Killanully, Co. Cork.' In Digging up Cork, Archaeological Excavations in Cork. Cork Public Museum, 14-17,