County: Cork Site name: Ballynacorra West 2
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0296
Author: Tara O’Neill, ACS Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Site type: Burnt-mound material
Period/Dating: —
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.
