What is recorded here

Oil storage tanks sit on a destroyed midden, but underneath is a kitchen floor made of a thousand discarded shells. People lived there before the castle, eating and wasting and remembering nothing about the future. The tanks drink sunlight now, hot and loud, while the old meal cools beneath them. Corkbeg keeps both without apology.

On Corkbeg island. According to Power (1940, 98) 'prehistoric shell mounds, portions or traces of which appear in several places on the banks - in vicinity of the castle' (CO088-030---). Destroyed; oil storage tanks on site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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