Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Ballygrady North, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygrady North
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cill (Site of) (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.22775, -8.80111
- SMR number
- CO016-146----
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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, on NW-facing slope. Arc of low stony scarp (max. H 1.1m) SW->NW and two whitethorn trees c. 18m to E indicate site; no surface evidence for burials. Not shown on 1842 or 1905 OS 6-inch maps. According to Bowman (1934, 373-4), field called 'the Keel field'; site 'practically levelled' with diameter of 25yds; whitethorn tree in centre with about '15 rough headstones...these stones vary in height from 6ins to 14ins'. According to local information, known locally as 'paupers' graveyard' or 'cill' and old famine road c. 16m to N.
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.