Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Aghada, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghada
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.83598, -8.21012
- SMR number
- CO088-122----
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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
A black charcoal-enriched feature was exposed during test excavation prior to a proposed house site development in the main street of Aghada village. Excavation of the feature revealed a linear trench (L 6m E-W; max Wth 1.4m N-S; max. D 0.8m) which contained three fills. The high incidence of iron slag and tuyère fragments recovered from the main fill of the trench suggested to the excavator (Quinn 2006f, 33) that it was part of a furnace or a feature associated with ironworking. The thick clay lining at the base of the trench is also characteristic of iron-smelting furnaces. A sherd of post-medieval, glazed, red earthenware pottery dating to between the 17th and the 19th centuries was recovered from this layer. According to Quinn (ibid.), it is possible that the feature excavated is part of a flue associated with an earth-cut furnace. (Quinn 2006f, 33; Quinn 2003)
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.