Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leper hospital
Spital (Orrery and Kilmore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Spital (Orrery and Kilmore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hospital (in Ruins) (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.23968, -8.66488
- SMR number
- CO017-105----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Indicated as rectangular structure (c. 18m WNW-ESE; c. 7m NNE-SSW) on 1842, 1906 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps; marked as 'Hospital' only on 1937 OS 6-inch map. To E of road, and immediately S of disused quarry. No structure survives. According to local information, 'old fever hospital with possible chapel'. OS Field Memoranda of 1932 recorded 'a ruin...52 feet in length 24 in breadth and 3 ft high, it is built of small stones and mortar...the local tradition has it that it was a Leper Hospital...[and]...was used as a burial ground for unbaptised and illegitimate children.' Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 356) suggest townland name derived from medieval hospital or hospice, as does Lee (1966, 17); possible church (14531) also in townland. Adjacent road was main Cork-Limerick road at least until 1788 (O'Keeffe and Simington 1991, 144).
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.