Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hospital
Knockaclarig, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaclarig
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hospital (in Ruins) (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.26368, -9.21087
- SMR number
- CO013-011001-
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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, atop hill. No visible surface trace of site. Depicted only on 1936 OS 6-inch map as roofless rectangular structure, open-ended to N. Described by OS Field Memoranda (1933) as 'a small enclosure...measuring eleven yards long and 4 yards wide, 1 foot high and 2 foot wide and is composed of earth and stone'. Bowman (1934, 437-8) recorded that 'An Sean-Oisbedeal - The Old Hospital, in P. Lane's... had accommodation for 6 persons', which, according to local tradition, was use during The Famine. Church (14513) immediately to E; burial ground (11993) c. 130m to E.
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
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.