Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ballynadrideen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynadrideen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground (Private) (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.30738, -8.68861
- SMR number
- CO007-055001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In flat, poorly drained land. Two adjoining rectangular graveyards (W graveyard c. 45m SW-NE; c. 45m NW-SE / E graveyard c. 40m SW-NE; c. 45m NW-SE), enclosed by low, worn earthen banks; ruin of parish church of Aglishdrinagh (14395) in westernmost graveyard. Large burial vault occupies approximate position of E end of church; table tomb atop vault inscribed 'Henry Harrison, Castle Harrison'; vault has date of 1811, but, according to Grove White (1905-25, vol. 2, 88), built by William Harrison in early 18th century; now surrounded by family burials in railed plots. Elsewhere in graveyard marked burials are 19th-century in date; 'only a very few other families are interred...the principal being that of the Harold-Barry's of Ballyvonare' (ibid., vol. 1, 29). According to Grove White (ibid., 28), 'in recent times the Harrison family enclosed a further space of about equal size'; this must be easternmost graveyard though this is shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map; area now devoid of burial markers.
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
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.