Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Carrigrohane Beg, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigrohane Beg
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd (1939)
- Coordinates
- 51.89808, -8.57318
- SMR number
- CO073-044001-
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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 S side of road, in low-lying area close to junction of Lee and Shournagh rivers. Well-kept, trapezoidal graveyard (43m N-S; 32m E-W; see plan, Henchion 1968b, 176), enclosed by stone wall, except to S where bounded by one-storey residential house. In occasional use; memorial inscriptions recorded by Henchion (ibid.); earliest inscribed headstone dated 1735. In SE quadrant burial vault of Fitton family; rusticated limestone front facade faces E, with collapsing sod-covered mound to rear; interments in vault date from 1811 to 1926. Many low uninscribed gravemarkers noted. At N end ruin of Carrigrohanebeg parish church (CO073-044002-).
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
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.