Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Carrigathou, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigathou
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Remains of) (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.92122, -8.83795
- SMR number
- CO071-040002-
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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 tillage; site now obscured by dumped field-fence material. Described by Hartnett (1939, 93) as 'raised platform, 4 feet high and of oblong plan 45 by 28 feet'. According to OS Name Books 'had been the parish church of Aghinagh' (PJH). No visible surface trace of burial ground (CO071-040001-) shownon 1842 OS 6-inch map immediately S of church; no trace either of bullaun stone (CO071-040003-) marked on OS 6-inch map.
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.