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Church

Glebe (Muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Glebe, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Glebe (Muskerry East By.)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins) (1938)
Coordinates
51.91031, -8.79166
SMR number
CO072-006003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In Coachford, in N half of graveyard (CO072-006002-). Ruins of C of I parish church of Magourney; on site of earlier church (CO072-006001-) which was in ruins in 1615 (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 249). Church consists of rectangular nave (int.: 14.5m E-W; 5.55m N-S) with unusually elaborate tower at W end and semicircular apse (int. : 4.3m N-S; 3m E-W) at E end. Church entered through door in W wall of tower. Nave lit by four tall round-headed windows in S wall. Wide segmental chancel arch gives access to shallow chancel in apse, with segmental-headed window embrasure at E end; chancel now railed off for burial plot of antiquarian Herbert Webb Gillman; chest tomb and other 19th-century burial memorials in nave. Tower consists of central 3-storey tower flanked by lower side chambers (overall: 3.3m E-W; 9.45m N-S), creating an imposing facade with clasped buttresses on all corners, battlements, blind niches, and other neo-Gothic embellishments. Nave and tower probably that described as 'a new parish church' in 1750 (Smith 1750, vol. 1, 177); chancel probably added when church repaired in 1818 (Brady ibid., 251). New C of I parish church, named 'Christ Church' built immediately across road in mid-19th century: gabled nave and chancel with bellcote on W gable; still in repair and now in private use.

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

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