Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - unclassified
Mountcatherine, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountcatherine
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Abbey (Site of) (1935)
- Coordinates
- 52.03897, -8.33800
- SMR number
- CO053-008----
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
In pasture, level field with no visible trace of small rectangular structure named 'Abbey (in ruins)' on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Power (1932, 181) saw 'some nondescript remains....but evidence is entirely wanting that they are the remains of an abbey'; not listed by Gwynn and Hadcock.
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
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.