Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Killabraher South, County Cork, Ireland
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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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
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.