2024:654 - Coolmurraghue, Kerry Pike, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork

Site name: Coolmurraghue, Kerry Pike

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 24E0078

Author: Avril Purcell

Author/Organisation Address: Lane Purcell Archaeology, 64 Father Mathew Road, Turners Cross, Cork

Site type: Pit

Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)

ITM: E 561461m, N 573041m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 51.908177, -8.560113

Archaeological monitoring was carried out during construction of a residential development. An isolated shallow pit (1.1m north-south x 0.7m x 0.12m deep) was identified close to the eastern site boundary. Fifteen sherds of prehistoric pottery were found in the pit.