2020:375 - BALLINCROKIG, Ballyvolane, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: BALLINCROKIG, Ballyvolane
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO063-114---- and CO063-073----
Licence number: 20E0586
Author: Avril Purcell
Author/Organisation Address: 64 Fr Mathew Rd, Turner's Cross, Cork
Site type: Fulacht fia, Cremation pit and Pit
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 568759m, N 575667m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.932041, -8.454151
Twenty-eight trenches were mechanically excavated across the site following a geophysical survey. Five archaeological features were revealed in four trenches including a burnt mound spread/fulacht fia, three possible pits 15–20m north of the ringfort (CO064-114) and a small deposit of dark brown silty clay and charcoal with fragments of cremated bone (totaling 1.1g) approximately 150m further to the north. The deposit appeared to be sitting on top of the subsoil and there was no evidence of a pit containing the cremated bone.
The burnt mound spread/ fulacht fia and possible pits will be retained in situ within buffer zones.