County: Cork Site name: Collins Site, Lackaghane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 18E0190
Author: Stephen A. Brighton, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland
Site type: Historical - Famine/post-famine cabin
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 506343m, N 529830m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.513307, -9.349401
The Collins Site, located in Lackaghane, County Cork, is a rural domestic site associated with the McCarthy family dating between 1850 and 1911. At present, the site consists of a standing dry-laid stone cabin ruin. In June of 2018 excavations focused on the cabin’s interior and revealed architectural elements of nineteenth-century Irish vernacular construction, such as the location of the kitchen, bed chamber hearths and a flagstone floor in at least one half of the single-storied dwelling. The artefacts recovered, such as religious medallions, an ink well, candle stick holders, teacups, and dinner plates, reflect the use of space and the construction of daily family life in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
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