County: Cork Site name: Castlemary 2
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 08E0311
Author: Tara O’Neill, ACS Ltd, Unit 21, Boyne Business Park, Greenhills, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Site type: Burnt-stone material
Period/Dating: —
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.
