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Excavation - miscellaneous

Moneyreague, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Excavation - miscellaneous, Moneyreague, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Moneyreague
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.77291, -9.17118
SMR number
CO093-033002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Two pits were revealed during excavations undertaken in 2001 prior to the reinstatement of a displaced standing stone (CO093-033----). The smaller of the pits (diam. 0.15m; D 0.70m) was subcircular in plan and was cut through the redeposited boulder clay. The fill was a brown sandy silt containing occasional small charcoal flecks and pebbles. The larger pit (0.25m x 0.31m; D 0.16m) was situated c. 0.12m to the S and was roughly oval in plan with the N and E sides sloping gradually to an uneven base (Wth 0.11m). The fill was a loose, dark-brown to black, silty sediment containing occasional charcoal and pebbles. The pit cut into redeposited boulder clay and also into the N side of the backfilled socket for the standing stone. The excavation also uncovered a cremation pit (CO093-033001-). (McCarthy 2002a; 2003, 50-52)

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.

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