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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Killeenemer, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Killeenemer, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Killeenemer
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.21570, -8.32846
SMR number
CO019-092001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

On gentle N-facing slope. Trapezoidal enclosure (c. 190m N-S; c. 190m E-W) with rounded corners, visible as shadow site and as differential growth pattern in aerial photograph (J. Monk, January 1982), surrounding Killeenemer graveyard (14593) and church (14433); cut by road from NW to S. Enclosing element evident as low earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9m) N->SE and to WNW, with earthen bank incorporated into field boundary system WNW->N. Remains of internal enclosure can be traced concentric to N and E sides of graveyard: E side (L 80m) visible as shadow mark on aerial photograph; N side survives as low rise atop scarp (H 0.5m). Midway along N side, banks turn inwards and extend S to meet N wall of graveyard, forming parallel sides of 'avenue' (Wth c. 7m); internal ground level of graveyard is c. 0.3m above that of avenue. Bullaun stone (13917) c. 450m S of church (14433); several rotary quern fragments, formerly collected around altar in church, now in Ballindangan Community Centre. Killeenemer equated by MacCotter and Nicholls (1996, 182) with Cill Aenamhna, described in the Crichad an Chaoilli as chief church of the tuath Eoghanacht Gleannamnach (Power ibid., 51); presumably also site of ecclesiastical court held at Killeenemer from at least 1275 (MacCotter and Nicholls ibid., 109).

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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