2008:155 - ARDNABOURKEY (1), Cork
County: Cork
Site name: ARDNABOURKEY (1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 08E0350
Author: Linda Clarke, ACS Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 583945m, N 562655m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.815926, -8.232854
Works were carried out along the route of the East Cork Gas Pipeline on behalf of Bord Gáis Éireann. Monitoring of the topsoil-stripping along the pipeline route between March and April 2008 revealed a spread of burnt-mound material at Ardnabourkey 1, Co. Cork. This spread was subsequently resolved in May 2008. Radiocarbon analysis of the burnt-mound spread revealed that it dated to the Middle Bronze Age.