County: Cork Site name: LISNAMANROE, GARRANES
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO084-083 Licence number: 11E0110
Author: William O’Brien
Site type: Enclosure
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 547298m, N 564067m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.826354, -8.764562
A first season of excavation was conducted at Lisnamanroe, Co. Cork. The site is a low-relief, circular earthwork enclosure, 60–70m in overall diameter, located 145m west of the well-known trivallate ringfort of Lisnacaheragh, Garranes townland. Two trenches were excavated over a four-week period in May 2011. This confirmed that the original enclosure consisted of a shallow ditch and a low internal bank, inside which there was a light wooden fence. The interior of the enclosure was cultivated in the early modern era, with spade-dug lazy-beds disturbing the early occupation surface. A large number of stake-holes, as well as several post-holes, pits and burnt deposits, were discovered. Some of these are connected to stake- and post-built structures, the full extent of which is not presently known. Artefact finds include spindle-whorls and stone discs, a fragment of a bone comb, a broken glass bead, whetstones and some metallurgical slag. Radiocarbon dates for the enclosing element and interior occupation indicate a 4th/5th-century AD date range for this site.
Department of Archaeology, University College Cork
