Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Carrig Demesne, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrig Demesne
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carrig Ch (in Ruins) (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.15129, -8.56041
- SMR number
- CO033-041002-
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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
In graveyard (14551). Site of Carrigamleary parish church; no visible trace. Described by Power (1932, 99) as 75ft x 21ft, but in 'a woeful condition of dilapidation', but with remains of E and W gables and part of S wall. Reported 'in ruins' in 1615, and abandoned by 1694; new parish church built c. 500m to N (14705) in 1715 (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 82-3). A church here listed in Papal Taxation of 1291 (ibid.).
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.