2022:498 - CLAIDH DUBH, Lisnagoorneen, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: CLAIDH DUBH, Lisnagoorneen
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO018-001; CO026-099; CO034-055
Licence number: 22E0670
Author: Eamonn Cotter
Author/Organisation Address: Ballynanelagh, Rathcormac, Co. Cork
Site type: Linear earthwork
Period/Dating: Iron Age (800 BC-AD 339)
ITM: E 571103m, N 604452m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.191103, -8.422639
Three 2m-wide test trenches were excavated across this site in advance of the construction of an extension to an existing early 20th-century cottage. The site is adjacent to the Claidh Dubh, a prehistoric linear earthwork running for 22km north-south across North Cork from the Nagles Mountains in the south to the Ballyhoura Mountains in the north. No archaeology was found.