2008:197 - Castlemary 1, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork Site name: Castlemary 1

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0089, 08E0177

Author: Terry Connell, ACS Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.

Site type: Two burnt-stone spreads

Period/Dating:

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.