County: Cork Site name: Ballynacorra West 1
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0295
Author: Tara O’Neill, ACS Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Site type: Burnt-stone mound
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 588730m, N 570257m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.884373, -8.163701
Excavation was 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 Ballynacorra West 1, Co. Cork. The features were subsequently resolved in March 2008. Radiocarbon analysis of the burnt-mound spread revealed that it dated to the Late Bronze Age.
