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The fifteenth- to seventeenth-century settlement comprised a 70m east-west ‘street’ of house
platforms west of the early medieval house cluster. The house platforms- five rectangular (II-
VI) and two circular (VII-VIII) structures- overlay the broad medieval ridge and furrow in
fields B and C as well as overlay and slighted the upper bank of Field B and extended west
over the north bank of field C. The house cluster has been identified with a settlement
marked as ‘Crompeol’ on the southwest corner of Valentia Island on the early seventeenth
century ‘Carew’ map of the area.
The narrow ridge and furrow on the southern slopes overlay the broader cultivation furrows
where they occur close together and were mainly concentrated to the west of the possible
medieval drainage channel. They appear to have been worked for a short period between the
fifteenth/seventeenth centuries and are probably roughly contemporary with the ‘Crompeol’
settlement. A possible mill site was uncovered 100m southwest of the ‘Crompeol’ settlement
and radiocarbon dates indicate it was roughly contemporary with the ‘Crompeol’ settlement.
Fig. 150: Plan of Bray Head- houses, kilns and possible mill site (after Mitchell et al. 1998,
47).
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