Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Ballyheen Middle, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyheen Middle
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kill Grave Yard (Disused) (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.18974, -8.84295
- SMR number
- CO023-094002-
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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
Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as roughly square area (c. 25m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW) defined by dotted line; shown on 1905 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps as circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by dotted line and marked 'Disused'. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Levelled; now evident as low raised oval area (c. 25m NE-SW); site of church (14460) to N of centre. Two blackthorn trees c. 10m to S regarded locally as marking site of burial ground. According to Bowman (1934, 406), field known locally as 'The Keel'. He adds that 'about one sixth of the surrounding fence may still be seen'; apparently some of the slain buried here after Battle of Knocknanuss in 1647 (14694) and many skeletons found here were reinterred in Buttevant Abbey (14382).
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.