Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Derrygalun, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrygalun
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.16740, -8.97618
- SMR number
- CO022-165001-
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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 shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps; shown on 1937 OS 6-inch map as rectangular area (c. 30m N-S; c. 20m E-W) defined by broken line, with church site (14474) in interior. In pasture, on W-facing slope. Levelled c. 1974; according to local information, site was enclosed by low bank (H 0.3m). Bowman (1934, 498) noted burial ground was 'circular, diam. 21 yards and...2ft higher than the surrounding field. There is no fence'. He names adjoining field to E 'Pairc a tSagairt - The Priests field'.
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
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.