Knockadoon Bronze Age House Site LI032-022016

In area of rock outcrop on south-facing slope of Knockadoon Peninsula, overlooking Lough Gur, the present shoreline of which lies 100m to the south. Oval-shaped Bronze Age house (Site D House I), discovered during a campaign of archaeological excavations led by Professor Seán P. Ó Ríordáin. Curving arrangement of low orthostats delineate the eastern side of the house measuring 5.5m N-S by 3.5m E-W, with bedrock forming the enclosing element on the western side. The type of superstructure is unknown, although Ó Ríordáin suggested that the walls above the stone foundation may have been built of sods. The structure partly overlay the floor of a middle Neolithic round house. Ó Ríordáin noted that decoration on the Class II pottery was rare and this might indicate a date in the late Bronze Age. The prehistoric site is on private land and there is no access to the monument without the landowner’s permission. For more detailed description, visit: https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment/?SMRS=LI032-022016-