2025:218 - Loughbeg 3, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: Loughbeg 3
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A
Licence number: E005480
Author: Phillip Quilty, Rubicon Heritage Ltd.
Author/Organisation Address: The Glen Distillery Business Park, Old Whitechurch Road, Kilnap, Cork T23 HY01
Site type: Series of pits and stake-holes
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 578361m, N 563781m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.825851, -8.313919
Excavation at Loughbeg 3, as part of the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Road Project, Co. Cork, revealed a pit, a possible trough and a series of eight stake-holes as well as a large natural depression that contained a single sherd of prehistoric pottery. Stage (iv) post-excavation analysis is still pending. Below is a preliminary bulletin.
The preliminary assessment of the results of the excavation suggests that the small burnt spread, oxidized area, eight stake-holes and trough identified at Loughbeg 3 were prehistoric in date. Trough C030 continues outside the scheme boundary to the south, indicating that the site has not been fully excavated, and that additional archaeological features/deposits remains in situ.
The only artefact discovered was a single sherd of prehistoric pottery recovered during the Stage (ii) work.