Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Ardra (barrymore By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardra (barrymore By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Ground (Disused) (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.05574, -8.17025
- SMR number
- CO045-096001-
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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 pasture, on NE-facing slope. Circular area (27.8m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by low scarp (ext. H 1.35m) N->S; low earthen bank (ext. H 0.2m; int. H 0.5m) S->N. External line of retaining stones set edge to edge (H 0.4m) N->SE; occurring irregularly SE->N. Standing stone (CO045-096002-) set radially in bank to SE. Interior level; slightly raised on E side and cut into hillslope on W side; some possible grave-markers noted. Known locally as famine burial ground. Still used for burial of unbaptised infants in Powers time (1917, 28).
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.