Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballinbrittig, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinbrittig
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of) (1935)
- Coordinates
- 51.93466, -8.31728
- SMR number
- CO064-089002-
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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 marshy area, on W side of stream. Scarped-up rectangular platform (max. H 0.5m; 6m N-S; 5.5m E-W); scatter of large stones on platform, one in depression which could be collapsed grave. At NW corner of platform double arc of stones set on edge; exact nature unclear but might be feature described by Power (1918, 187) as 'foundations of a building presumably an early church or oratory type... measuring 18 feet by 9 feet'. According to Power (ibid.), site of 'Cill na Cluana - Church of the Sequestered Place'. Power locates site in Killacloyne townland, but OS 6-inch map shows it just inside Ballinbrittig.
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
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.