Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Nohaval Upper, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nohaval Upper
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.10876, -9.20065
- SMR number
- CO029-033002-
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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
Bowman (1934, 660) recorded church site and burial ground (14154) on J. Daly's farm in field called 'the Chapel Field. The site is circular (diam. 32yds), covers about half an acre, and is c. 2 feet higher than the field level. The surrounding fence is levelled. Grass-covered mounds mark the site of the chapel.' According to local information, in same field as holy well (14028). No visible surface trace. According to Ó Drisceoil (1934, 24), field immediately to E of holy well called 'Páirc an tSéipéil (chapel field) [and] although there is no trace of a building, local tradition states that there was a place of worship here.'
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.