Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Ballymacoo, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacoo
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.95100, -8.70519
- SMR number
- CO061-193002-
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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
O'Sullivan (1955, 2) mentions an early monastery or hermitage, possibly associated with St Mochua, which he located on the E side of the Owennagearagh River. There are now no visible remains of any ecclesiastical site here; this area is swampy and covered with overgrowth. There is a holy well (vol. 3, no. 9259), named 'Tobairin Beannuighthe' on the W side of the river.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 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.