Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Garraveasoge, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garraveasoge
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.15830, -8.92918
- SMR number
- CO031-009001-
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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 OS 6-inch map; shown on 1904 and 1938 OS 6-inch maps as rectangular field planted with trees. On S side of road. Rectangular area (c. 70m N-S; 18m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.4m). Interior densely overgrown; memorial cross inside roadside bank, to famine victims buried there (1847-1848). According to Bowman (1934, 338), site of burial ground and church (14481) of penal times, used as auxiliary burial ground to Kanturk workhouse.
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
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.