What is recorded here

Half a dozen pits and a ring of fifty stake-holes still hold the shape of a building that stopped being a building long before roads and cameras arrived. The prehistoric to post-medieval finds in those pits suggest a place reused across centuries, perhaps for storage, disposal, ritual or ordinary domestic loss. The hearth is the clearest anchor: someone stood there, made fire, and left behind a pattern the soil preserved.

Archaeological excavation, prior to development works revealed a hearth surrounded by 50 stake-holes. A shallow, truncated, linear feature (L c. 2.4m) was discovered c. 1.5m west of the hearth. A further seven pits were found to the W, three of which were clustered and similarly sized (diam. 0.45-0.83m; D 0.22-0.3m). Finds from the pits ranged in date from the prehistoric to post-medieval periods. Two further isolated pits to the S produced no finds. (Purcell 2006b, 66-7) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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