What is recorded here

Fine cobbling, post-holes and a hearth mark a lost room inside a Bronze Age enclosure on a gentle east-facing slope. Men dug half of it in 2003 before the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass closed the valley, but the rest stayed buried beyond their trench. It may have been a kitchen, a workshop or a place for keeping warmth when rain came off the hill. The known part is small, yet it proves the enclosure was not empty and that people lived there before the road erased the horizon.

On the gentle E-facing slope of a low hill. This is one of two possible structures (see CO044-073004-) that were partially excavated in 2003 in advance of the construction of the N8 Rathcormac-Fermoy Bypass. The possible structure, which was identified by an area of fine cobbling, post-holes and a hearth, was discovered within the interior of a Bronze Age enclosure (CO044-073003-). As it lay largely outside the excavated area, it was not possible to determine its full extent or its function. (Cotter 2006a, 34-5; 2006c) 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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