2025:657 - Collins Site II, Lackaghane, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: Collins Site II, Lackaghane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 24E0507
Author: Stephen A Brighton and Fiona Steiwer/Department of Anthropology/University of Maryland
Author/Organisation Address: 1111 Woods Hall, College Park, Maryland, 20742
Site type: Domestic habitation
Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)
ITM: E 506263m, N 529856m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.513527, -9.350560
Collins Site II is in Lackaghane Townland, County Cork. It is a rural domestic site located in an adjacent field to the McCarthy cabin (i.e., Collins Site I). According to the 1842 and 1899 Ordnance Survey maps, the field contained three stone buildings, with at least the larger building certainly being a house. The other two may be either outbuildings or perhaps smaller cabins for landless tenants. The 1899 Ordnance map shows that the buildings are abandoned. The 2025 excavations continued to reveal the subsurface remains of one of the three buildings. Moreover, recovered from the units in and around the buried foundation were artifacts (n=80) dating from 1780 to 1840, providing a timeline of when the building was inhabited and abandoned. The artifacts reflect domestic daily life before Ireland’s Great Hunger.