What is recorded here

Castlewarren tower house overlooks a buried shell midden, where ordinary sewer work exposed ancient refusal to waste life. People likely ate, bled and played near that gate before becoming memory. The trench cut through hours of human brightness, then closed again, returning the shells to darkness with the tower still watching above.

This shell midden was discovered in 2005 during monitoring of pipe-laying, 7m S of the gate leading to Castlewarren tower house (CO087-052001-). Trenching for a sewer pipe uncovered the E edge of this shell midden, located c. 1m below the ground surface. The exposed portion of the midden (T c. 0.5m) consisted of shells. According to the excavator (Cotter 2005, 10), no attempt was made to remove any of the deposit as it was sealed when the sewer trench was backfilled. (Cleary 2005) 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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