What is recorded here

Behind the new Mitchelstown road, three small charcoal pits and one burial pit waited a century for boots and buckets. They are not grand, but they are honest: people dug, burned, buried, and left the earth marked. The road merely opened the keyboard; human life had already played a few quiet notes beneath it.

Archaeological excavation during the construction of the N8 Mitchelstown relief road uncovered a sub-oval pit (0.45m x 0.4m; D 0.2m), with steep sides and an irregular base, which contained a charcoal-rich silt fill. Some of the charcoal was identified as hazel/alder (Sutton 2006e, 11). Two similar pits (CO019-177----; CO019-179----) were located 1.7m to the WSW and c. 1m to the N, respectively. A similarly charcoal-rich pit (CO019-175----) and a pit-burial (CO019-174----) were located c. 100m to the S. (Sutton 2006e, 11, 70; 2007d, 69-70). 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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