County: Cork Site name: CORRIN (6)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 03E1636
Author: Aidan O’Connell, Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd.
Site type: Fulacht fia
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 581336m, N 596182m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.117215, -8.272520
Additional testing was carried out in advance of construction along the route of the proposed N8 Rathcormac–Fermoy Bypass on behalf of Cork County Council in July 2003. During this phase of centre-line testing a burnt mound was identified in Corrin townland. The site was subsequently designated Corrin 6 and was excavated over a period of three weeks in October 2003.
Sod and topsoil was stripped from an area of 900m2. This revealed the presence of two burnt mounds/fulachta fiadh. Burnt Mound 1 was located to the south. This consisted of heat-shattered stone in a matrix of black carbonised silty clay. It had dimensions of 9.1m north–south by 6m by 0.35m deep. The mound overlay a subrectangular unlined trough with dimensions of 1.7m north–south by 1.2m by 0.3m deep. A second mound was located 2.5m to the north. This had dimensions of 7.65m north–south by 4.2m by 0.15m deep. There was no associated trough. The only other feature recorded at the site was a cobbled trackway at the field boundary that was post-medieval in date.
The work was funded in full by the National Development Plan 2000–2006 and was awarded by the National Roads Authority.
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