Pit-burial in Killydonoghoe — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Killydonoghoe holds one adult inside a broken pot on a Cork hilltop, waiting beside a possible Bronze Age house. The bypass cut through the place, exposing the vessel base and forcing a hurried decision about how much of the dead person should leave the land. That much of the burial is missing is not a gap in the story; it is the story. The living road took its share, the hill kept its share, and the pot still marks the line between them.

On top of a hill in undulating hilly terrain, a pit-burial was uncovered during archaeological monitoring on the N8 Glanmire-Watergrasshill Bypass. The burial had been heavily truncated and was contained within a pottery vessel, the base of which was found in situ. Analysis of the bones found that they represented the remains of one adult. A possible Bronze Age house (CO064-167----) is located 40m to the S and two pit-burials (CO064-169----; CO064-166----) are located 260m to the N and S, respectively. (Sherlock 2003d, 45; 2005b, 51, 59) 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 dating to the Early Christian period; it is significant as a rare example of inhumation burial associated with pottery, indicating possible local funerary practices in a transitional phase between pagan and Christian traditions.

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