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Church

Killabraher South, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Killabraher South, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Killabraher South
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Church (Site of) (1936)
Coordinates
52.30423, -8.78114
SMR number
CO007-067002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

North-of-centre in graveyard (14590). Roughly rectangular area (c. 10m E-W; c. 6.5m N-S), free of upright headstones and defined by burial vault to E, indicates site of church. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as rectangular structure (c. 18m E-W; c. 7m N-S) marked 'in ruins'; marked 'site of' on 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps. No churches in use in Shandrum parish, in which Killabraher lies, in 1673 (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 377). Described by Smith (1750, vol. 1, 318) as 'a ruined monastery, but of what order is uncertain...'; by Guy's Topographical Dictionary of 1887 as 'a Franciscan monastery' (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 4, 204); Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 278, 366) however find 'no evidence that this was Franciscan' and state that 'order and period unknown'.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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