Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kildinan, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildinan
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of) (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.06246, -8.34773
- SMR number
- CO044-017002-
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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
At centre of graveyard (CO044-01701-). Sod-covered ruins of rectangular church (14.5m E-W; 7.5m N-S); E end stands highest (int. H 0.7m; ext. H1m). Scatter of stones around ruin. According to Power (1923, 190), name derives from 'Cill Daighnín (Dinan's Church)'; the origin of this name is unclear.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.