Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Coolroe More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolroe More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeen Burial Gd (Disused) (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.09420, -8.87064
- SMR number
- CO040-023001-
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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 1937 OS 6-inch maps as subrectangular field (c. 30m E-W; max. c. 30m N-S) and named 'Killeen burial Gd. (Disused)'. According to local information, field to W of site known as 'Killeen field'. No visible surface trace of burials or enclosure in either field. Bowman (1934, 245) recorded church (14470) and burial ground here with 'surrounding fence...practically levelled. The site measures 22 yds by 20...Five headstones, c. 2ft high, and without inscription, mark the sites of graves'.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.