County: Cork Site name: Collins Site, Lackaghane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 18E0190 ext.
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 townland, County Cork, is a rural domestic site that has two
components: the dry-laid stone cabin associated with the McCarthy family dating between 1850 and
1911, and the subsurface remains of a pre-Famine cabin and its associated outbuildings. At present,
the focus is on the standing dry-laid stone cabin ruin. The 2019 excavations worked in the same
footprint of the 2018 research and completed the areas in the house unexcavated from the previous
year. In addition, work was carried out along the cabin’s exterior. The purpose was to detail two
outbuildings east of the cabin, as well as to find evidence of the pre-Famine buildings north of the
standing ruin. The results consist of locating the northern wall of one of the outbuildings and
evidence of building debris below ground surface that is most likely associated with the pre-Famine
cabin. The artifacts recovered in 2019 are similar to those from 2018, and include ceramic and glass
sherds and ferric pieces representing various farm implements associated with the McCarthy family
tenure on the property.
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