Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Cork City, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cork City
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.89934, -8.47957
- SMR number
- CO074-034004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Rectangular graveyard (c. 50m E-W; c. 16m N-S), to W of St. Peter's Church (CO074-03405-) from which it is now separated by small industrial building. Gravestones removed from original position and placed in single line along N wall of graveyard when made into a recreation park by Cork Corporation in 1975; inscriptions date from 1638; Chest tomb of William Rogers (1686) remains in original position (Henchion 1988, 110-25).
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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.