Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Knockaclarig, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaclarig
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of) (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.26350, -9.21054
- SMR number
- CO013-011002-
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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
Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Marked on 1936 OS 6-inch map as 'church (site of)'; recorded by OS Field Memoranda (1933), as 'a small enclosure...28ft long, 13ft wide, 1foot high and 2ft wide...composed of stones and earth'. In rough grazing on S-facing slope. According to local information, tradition of church here. Bowman (1934, 437) named it 'An Teampall...site of a church'. No visible surface trace remains. Hospital (14784) in same field a short distance to W; possible burial (11993) and stone row (9839) in adjoining field to E; burial ground (14138) c. 110m 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
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Hospitalunder 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.