Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilmagoura, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmagoura
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground (Disused) (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.33787, -8.78912
- SMR number
- CO002-079001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on S-facing slope; c. 150m N of road. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as subrectangular enclosure (c. 10m E-W; c. 15m N-S), named 'Grave Yard'; as D-shaped area (straight side c. 25m E-W; projecting c. 30m to S), defined by broken line on 1903 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. D-shaped graveyard (straight side 19.4m E-W; projecting 11.6m to S) delimited to N by ruin of church (14436); defined elsewhere by low scarp, with shallow external fosse E->SE. No grave markers noted. According to tradition, 'unbaptized babies used to be buried there' (Dunworth 1989, 53). Site of holy well (14044) c. 60m to N.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.