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 547303m, N 564080m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.826476, -8.764483
Following investigations in 2011 and 2102, a third season of excavation was conducted at the levelled monument of Lisnamanroe in Garranes townland, Co. Cork. The site is a circular earthwork enclosure of late Iron Age/early medieval date, located adjacent to the well-known trivallate ringfort of Lisnacaheragh, Garranes.
Two trenches were excavated over a four-week period in May 2013. The first provided further confirmation for the presence of a stake fence running inside the bank-and-ditch that formed this enclosure. The second trench confirmed that the interior of the enclosure was cultivated in the early modern era, with spade-dug lazy-beds disturbing an earlier occupation surface. A number of archaeological features (stake-holes, post-hole, pits and charcoal deposits) are connected to habitation in the north-west quadrant of the enclosure. Samples for radiocarbon dating were recovered, as well as a small number of artifacts and metallurgical slag of possible early medieval date.
Department of Archaeology, University College Cork
