Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Carrigdownane Lower, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigdownane Lower
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.21654, -8.39401
- SMR number
- CO018-092001-
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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
To NE of road. Pentagonal graveyard (c. 63m max. E-W; c. 47m max. N-S), raised above surrounding ground level to N, E and S; enclosed by overgrown earthen bank (H 1.5m) with some stone facing; entrance gates to N. Ruin of parish church of Carrigdownane (14402) in centre. In use; burials, mostly marked by low uninscribed gravemarkers, to S of and within church. Earliest headstone noted dated 1790; Grove White (1905-25, vol. 2, 52) records headstone of 1771.
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
- Designed landscape - belvedereunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.