What is recorded here

One of three subcircular houses near Mitchelstown, built around 1400 BC, still holds a ring of nine post-holes inside a narrow trench. People may have stood at its eastern entrance, watched the sun rise, or moved through the small space while smoke drifted across the roof. The road works revealed that human life was not rare there; it was layered, repeated and familiar.

This is one of three house (CO010-065----, CO010-067----) which were excavated in 2004 in advance of the construction of the Mitchelstown inner relief road. This subcircular house (10.7m N-S; 10m E-W) comprised a slot-trench with an internal ring of nine post-holes. According to the excavator (Cotter 2007, 65), one of the post-holes had almost certainly been destroyed by a post-medieval boundary ditch that ran E-W across the S end of the monument. The entrance (Wth c. 1m) faced to the E. This house was located c. 1m to the S of one of the other houses (CO010-065----) and truncated the other (CO010-067----). According to Cotter (ibid.), a dense cluster of stake-holes, occurring in the area where the three houses overlapped, may have represented earlier transitory activity. Radiocarbon dates of 1431-1267 cal. BC (2-sigma) were returned from charcoal recovered from the fill of a structural slot-trench of this house (Cotter 2008, 15). (Cotter 2007, 65; 2008) 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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