Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Spittal-Lands, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Spittal-Lands
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Josephs Cemetery (1949-50)
- Coordinates
- 51.88441, -8.47096
- SMR number
- CO074-102----
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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
In Ballypheane. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as square area (c. 150sq); now extended to N and W to form irregular area enclosed by stone walls to S and E and concrete walls to N and W. Inside entrance gates, square area (c. 55m sq) defined by stone walls (H c. 2m) which, according to caretaker is earlier section of yard. Earliest gravestone dated 1780. Famine and pauper burial area in SW corner; not marked. Graveyard still in use.
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
- Workhouseunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fortificationunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.