Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Glebe (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- G Yd (1938)
- Coordinates
- 51.91025, -8.79159
- SMR number
- CO072-006002-
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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
Roadside, just NW of Coachford village; square graveyard (c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) enclosed by stone-faced earthen bank to N and E, and by retaining stone wall to S and W. In N half, ruin of C of I parish church of Magourney (CO072-006003-), on site of earlier parish church (CO072-006001-). Still in use; earliest inscribed headstone noted dated 1724, some low uninscribed gravemarkers also noted.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In this instance the entry has been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
A survey of 79 memorials in this graveyard was completed in 2013: the details are available at http://historicgraves.com
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 13 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.