2008:187 - CASTLEMARY (1), Cork
County: Cork
Site name: CASTLEMARY (1)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 08E0089, 08E0177
Author: Terry Connell, 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 589342m, N 567582m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.860344, -8.154730
Works were carried out along the route of the East Cork Gas Pipeline on behalf of Bord Gáis Éireann. Assessment took place of CO088–090/091 in the townland of Castlemary 1, Co. Cork, under licence 08E0089 and revealed the presence of two burnt-mound spreads. The spreads were subsequently excavated in March 2008 under licence 08E0177. Radiocarbon analysis of the burnt-mound spreads revealed that they dated to the Middle Bronze Age.