2009:153 - KILLEAGH, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: KILLEAGH
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: 09E0264
Author: Nikolah Gilligan, Margaret Gowen and Co. Ltd.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 600000m, N 577545m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.950002, -7.999999
The excavation of Site 34.5 in Killeagh townland, Co. Cork, was carried out for Bord Gáis Éireann. The site was identified during monitoring carried out by Bernice Molloy of the topsoil-stripping along the corridor of the Curraleigh West to Midleton pipeline scheme between March and May 2009. Site 34.5 was subsequently excavated in May 2009.
Excavation of this site revealed a shallow and patchy mound of charcoal and heat-shattered stone. The burnt mound measured c. 13m long (east–west) and 12m wide, with a depth of 0.2m. The mound had been truncated severely by three post-medieval drainage ditches.
Two troughs, one rectangular and one oval, with associated stake-holes within or around them, were uncovered below the mound. The troughs appeared to have a number of associated drains or channels feeding them. A hearth base was located just south of the main area of activity. A possible surface and a number of small pits were also present on the site.
Specialist analysis is ongoing and it is expected that the final report will be completed in 2010.