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Burial ground

Kilmacurrane, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Kilmacurrane, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilmacurrane
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.08220, -8.89933
SMR number
CO040-112001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on N-facing slope. Rectangular area (17m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by field fence to S; enclosing element obscured by overgrowth elsewhere. Three low rectangular mounds of earth and stone are evenly placed along N perimeter (measurements from W to E respectively; H 0.25m; 1.6m x 1.3m: H 0.35m; 1.6m x 1.5m: H 0.6m; 1.6m x 1.4m). Two slabs protrude from hillslope c. 1m S of E and W mounds; each partially covered with loose stones; one of these is possibly the 'flat stone c. 4ft 3ins by 3ft 2ins' referred to by Bowman (1934, 254) as 'evidently a tomb stone'. Interior slopes steeply downhill from S to N; shallow hollow in SW corner. According to local information, site has never been cultivated and one slab marks burial place of "Caseys". Bowman (ibid.) described site as burial ground '22 yds in diameter' with 'fence...practically levelled...no sign of the early church'.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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