Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Killeens (cork By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeens (cork By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (Disused) (1950)
- Coordinates
- 51.91626, -8.51740
- SMR number
- CO074-010001-
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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
Adjacent to farmyard, 50m NW of road; roughly oval-shaped graveyard (c. 40m E-W; c. 20m N-S) with ruins of church (CO074-01002-) approximately at centre. Gravemarkers (low, uninscribed H c. 0.4m) confined to subrectangular raised area (12.2m E-W: 6m N-S; max. H 0.6m) immediately to W of church; defined to E, S and W by stone-faced scarp, undefined to N. Graveyard defined to N by arc of low earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m); to E by natural scarp and to SE and S by sloping rock outcrop. On E side, c. 6m from church, well-constructed cairn of stones (H 1.5m; diam. c. 2.3m).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.