County: Cork Site name: CASTLEMARTYR AND GRANGE
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 09E0014
Author: Tony Cummins, for Sheila Lane & Associates, Deanrock Business Park, Togher, Cork.
Site type: Fulacht fiadh
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 595947m, N 573689m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.915324, -8.058901
Test-trenching was carried out at a proposed development site comprising eight pasture fields on the north side of Castlemartyr village. There are no known archaeological monuments within the proposed development site and no potential archaeological features were noted during a programme of geophysical survey that preceded test-trenching. The fragmentary remains of a levelled fulacht fiadh were identified in a test-trench excavated in a low-lying area of the southernmost field (NGR 196106 073478). It was composed of a thin spread of heat-shattered stones within a charcoal-enriched deposit that appeared to have been truncated by recent land drainage works. A small charcoal-rich deposit was uncovered 3m to the north of the main spread and appeared to be the fill of a circular pit (measuring 1m in diameter) associated with the burnt spread. There were no other archaeological features or finds uncovered during test-trenching.
