- Ardbrack, Co. Cork, Cork

In April 1981 human remains were discovered during construction work at Ardbrack, near Kinsale, Co. Cork.⁵⁶ A single skeleton had been found at a depth of 0.8m below the present ground level, which is estimated to have originally been c. 1m higher prior to the commencement of the building works. The remains, consisting of skull fragments, vertebrae, ribs and portions of long bone and pelvic bones, were collected by the Gardaí, and the Department of Archaeology, University College, Cork, was informed. A site investigation was carried out by Brendan O’Flaherty of the Department of Archaeology. All that remained of the burial were portions of the leg bones. Two fragments of clay pipe stems and a sherd of late seventeenth-century pottery were discovered with the skeleton. No other remains or grave structures were noted in the vicinity of the burial. The remains were not acquired by the Museum.

56. Parish of Ringcurran, barony of Kinsale. OS 6in. sheet 112; exact location not known. SMR CO112-103——