Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Garravagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garravagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (1939)
- Coordinates
- 51.88903, -8.63033
- SMR number
- CO073-037001-
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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 N bank of River Lee; rectangular graveyard (60m E-W; c. 50m N-S) enclosed by stone wall. Still in use; large collection of 18th- and 19th-century headstones to S of church, earliest noted dated 1770. Just N of centre, ruin of C of I parish church of Inishcarra (CO073-037002-). To N of church five gabled mausoleums; most easterly is largest with near identical pedimented gables at E and W ends; most westerly also large and built in neo-Romanesque style; all five suffering from vandalism. Site of early church 'built by St. Senan' (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 386), of which there is no visible surface trace.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.