2008:188 - CASTLEMARY (2), Cork
County: Cork
Site name: CASTLEMARY (2)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 08E0311
Author: Tara O’Neill, 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 589547m, N 567971m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.863844, -8.151767
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 two pits filled with burnt-mound material at Castlemary 2, Co. Cork. These features were subsequently resolved in April 2008. Radiocarbon analysis of the burnt-mound pits revealed that they dated to the Middle Bronze Age.