Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Carrigane (muskerry East By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigane (muskerry East By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Marys Ch (1939)
- Coordinates
- 51.87820, -8.65070
- SMR number
- CO073-055002-
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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 W side of graveyard (9519). Church consists of rectangular nave with shallow rectangular chancel at E end and pinnacled 4-storey tower at W end. Tower has string course between floors; round-arched door in W wall at ground-floor level, round-arched louvred opes on all floors above. Formerly C of I parish church of Athnowen; deconsecrated in 1979 but still roofed. Appears to have been rebuilt in early 18th century (Brady 1863, vol. 1, 179); tower at W end added 1756 according to inscribed stone plaque on tower; church extensively repaired in 1877 and 1888, chancel probably added at that stage (Cole 1903, 8-9).
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.