What is recorded here

Indicated holds two roofless stone chambers in a dead farmyard beside the old St Gobnet complex. Built around 1817 for the Colthurst estate, the larger room may have served as a famine porridge house, while the smaller chamber three metres west may have held horses. They stand empty now, but they still point toward hunger, ownership and the hands that fed or worked there.

In a disused farmyard at the S side of an archaeological complex associated with St Gobnet (CO058-034001- to CO058-034011-). The site consists of two associated, roofless, derelict, well constructed, stone-built structures. It is believed that they were built about 1817 as part of the Colthurst estate (report by C. Kelleher, Archaeologist, SMR file). According to local tradition, the main building was used as a soup kitchen/porridge house during the Great Famine. A separate, similarly built, derelict and roofless, single story high structure, situated c. 3m to the W, is believed locally to have been a stable. Compiled by: Cork Archaeological Survey, University College Cork. Date of upload: 2 January 2008

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