County: Cork Site name: MEENANE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E0806
Author: Rory Sherlock, Sheila Lane and Associates
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 577095m, N 585498m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.021014, -8.333729
The site was originally identified during monitoring of topsoil-stripping on the N8 Glanmire– Watergrasshill Road Scheme (Excavations 2001, No. 173). It comprised a roughly U-shaped deposit of heat-shattered stone and dark soil which enclosed a central trough. The stony deposit was 11.6m long, between 4m and 7m wide, and 0.15–0.2m deep, though it had apparently suffered horizontal and lateral truncation through agricultural and drainage works. A single piece of flint was found within the deposit. The trough, a sub-oval pit cut into the subsoil, was 1.45m long, 1.1m wide and up to 0.32m deep, and had a capacity of c. 250 litres.
AE House, Monahan Road, Cork
