County: Cork Site name: KILLYDONOGHOE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0501
Author: Rory Sherlock, Sheila Lane and Associates
Site type: Pit-burial
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 573427m, N 578786m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.960522, -8.386640
Several sites were originally identified during monitoring of topsoil-stripping on the N8 Glanmire–Watergrasshill Road Scheme (see Excavations 2001, No. 173). They were generally small isolated features of archaeological interest, and while other sites discovered on the scheme were excavated under separate licences, these small sites were grouped together under 01E0501. Each site on the road scheme was identified by an ‘AR’ prefix followed by a site-specific number, and sites AR3–6, AR10–13, AR26 and AR29 were investigated under this licence. Many of these sites were found to be of little or no archaeological significance, apart from AR10 (Killydonoghoe, this report), AR26 (Ballinvinny North, No. 108 Excavations 2001) and AR29 (Trantstown, No. 235 Excavations 2001).
AR10 consisted of a small, isolated cremation burial which was apparently contained within a pit, though the feature was clearly truncated by agricultural activity. The surviving part of the pit was c. 0.35m in diameter and up to 0.12m deep, and was filled with cremated bone and charcoal-rich material.
AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
