Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Kilbarrahan, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbarrahan
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.14553, -8.79948
- SMR number
- CO032-158002-
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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
According to Bowman (1934, 674), 'early church site' (14488) and burial ground 'surrounded by a circular earthen fence which was levelled and the field including the Church site was ploughed'. In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Low earthen mound (min. H 0.38m; max. H 0.8m) curves to form arc SSW->NNW (C 9m E-W); no other trace of burial ground. Known locally as a burial ground.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.