2008:171 - BALLYNACORRA WEST (2), Cork
County: Cork
Site name: BALLYNACORRA WEST (2)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 08E0296
Author: Tara O’Neill, ACS Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Bronze Age (2200 BC-801 BC)
ITM: E 588759m, N 570184m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.883717, -8.163277
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 linear spread of burnt-mound material at Ballynacorra West 2, Co. Cork. These features were subsequently resolved in April 2008. Radiocarbon analysis of the burnt-mound spread revealed that it dated to the Early Bronze Age.