Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Skagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Gd (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.12983, -9.05356
- SMR number
- CO030-099001-
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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 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps as irregular field skirted to N by road. Shown on 1937 OS 6-inch map as irregular field (c. 40m N-S) with field fence SSW->E and road respecting site NW->E; site of church (14529) also marked in interior. According to Bowman (1934, 282) in field called 'Pairc na Cille (field of the church). The plot measures 36yds diam...Surrounding fence partially levelled...A large number of headstones, c. 6ins. high mark the sites of graves. Local tradition says that a priest is buried here'. Area now densely overgrown and inaccessible. According to local information used as famine burial ground and as burial place of soldiers killed in "Cromwellian Battle" in Cullen and in use up to 1900.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.