Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ballyspillane West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyspillane West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (1936)
- Coordinates
- 51.94201, -8.15116
- SMR number
- CO065-083001-
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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
On W side of road; subrectangular graveyard (c. 30m E-W; c. 50m N-S) enclosed by overgrown earthen bank. O Buachalla and Henchion (1964, 115 ) note 28 headstones, including two for Catholic priests dated 1759 & 80; Coleman (1913-16a, 25) records inscriptions dating from 1753; headstones confined to area around centrally placed ruined parish church of Ballyspillane (CO065-08302-) but with group of low uninscribed gravemarkers to NW.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.