County: Cork Site name: KILLYDONOGHOE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0496
Author: Rory Sherlock, Sheila Lane and Associates
Site type: Pit-burial
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 573333m, N 578486m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.957821, -8.387984
The site was originally identified during monitoring of topsoil-stripping on the N8 Glanmire– Watergrasshill Road Scheme (see Excavations 2001, No. 173). It consisted of a number of small isolated features within an area measuring 25m by 20m, the most important being a heavily truncated cremated burial which was apparently contained within a pottery vessel, the base of which was found in situ. The other features on the site consisted of a shallow pit, an isolated post-hole and a number of stake-holes, but these do not appear to relate to the burial. The site lay 40m north of a possible Bronze Age house site (see Excavations 2001, No. 191), 260m north of a Bronze Age burial (see Excavations 2001, No. 190) and 260m south of another cremation burial, AR10 (see Excavations 2001, No. 194), all of which were excavated during the course of the same project.
AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
