What is recorded here

Mud, fire and bones filled the narrow pit before huts rose nearby. The clay still holds charcoal flecks and shattered stone, waiting for the story that built them. A house may cover the pit tomorrow, but the dead and the fire remain inside the earth.

During archaeological test-trenching in advance of a housing development, a rectangular pit (2.15m E-W x 0.25m) was discovered. The pit contained a dark grey, silty humic clay with moderate inclusions of heat-shattered stone, charcoal flecks and burnt bone. Two raths (CO087-030----; CO087-031----) are located 54m and 140m to the SSE and E, respectively. (Sherlock 2002, 9) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

A pit-burial of the Early Medieval period; its small dimensions and heat-shattered stones suggest a possible funerary or ritual context. The find highlights prehistoric or early Christian activity in the Carrigaline area, which is otherwise poorly documented.

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