Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ballinterry, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinterry
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gortroe Grave Yard (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.06075, -8.26038
- SMR number
- CO044-040001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On E side of road; rectangular (c. 55m E-W; c. 30m N-S) tree-lined graveyard enclosed by stone wall. Well-maintained graveyard with '186 headstones, about one-half of which were erected in the eighteenth century' (O Buachalla & Henchion 1966, 79-80) the oldest dated 1735; late 18th/19thcentury burial vault in NE corner. Ruined C of I parish church of Gortroe (CO044-04002-) in centre.
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.