What is recorded here

Death laid one person flat in Carrigaline Middle, a rectangular hole no larger than a child’s bed. A single stone marked the bottom of the pit, and grey-brown soil closed over the bones. The living may have walked past that spot for generations, unaware that an entire life had been folded into the earth beneath their feet.

During archaeological test-trenching in advance of a housing development, a rectangular pit (1.3m E-W x 0.9m; D 0.31m) was discovered. The pit contained a grey-brown silty soil with frequent bone inclusions in part of the fill. A stone (L 0.18m) was noted underlying the bone in this pit. (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 Neolithic pit-burial; its significance lies in the presence of human bone inclusions, indicating early funerary practices in the Carrigaline area.

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