Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Scarteen Upper, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Scarteen Upper
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground (Site of) (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.23600, -9.02799
- SMR number
- CO014-058----
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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 marked on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Bowman (1934, 129) recorded burial place of two priests martyred in Penal Times where until c. 1910 a mound, enclosed by 'circle of stones placed on end' (ibid.), covered grave and site marked by two whitethorn trees c. 2.5m apart. According to local information, single remaining tree removed c. 1985. In pasture, to N of steep-sided valley of Glounteenahran (Gleanntan an Aifrinn). No visible surface trace remains.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 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.