Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Pit-burial
Carrigaline Middle, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigaline Middle
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.82601, -8.38868
- SMR number
- CO087-135----
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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
During archaeological test-trenching in advance of a housing development, a pit (c. 0.35m x 0.25m; D 0.15m) was discovered. The pit contained a dark charcoal-rich fill with inclusions of cremated bone. The eastern side and base of the pit appeared to be delineated by two relatively flat pieces of limestone. The pit shares similar characteristics with two other pit-burials (CO087-138----; CO087-140----) found in the vicinity. (Sherlock 2002, 9-10)
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
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.