Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Kilcullen South, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcullen South
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.98148, -8.79664
- SMR number
- CO061-188----
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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 crest of hill. Large circular enclosure (diam. c. 70m); defined N->SSE by E side of subrectangular enclosure (9180); SSE->WNW by faint cropmark visible in aerial photograph (CASAP). Subrectangular enclosure (9180) and possible souterrain (9052) in E half; site of burial ground (9342) and possible burial (9378) in W half. According to Hartnett (1939, 192), field and enclosure (9180) both known as 'Kill'. Townland name translates 'Cill Chuilinn - St. Cuileann's Church' (O'Donoghue 1986, 283) and glen immediately to W of site named 'Glennakilla' on OS 6-inch maps.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.