Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Knockane (imokilly By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockane (imokilly By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- CO077-061----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Fitzgerald (1858, 14) mentions two destroyed mounds in this townland and the plough 'frequently turned up human bones here'. He also records several graves containing human skeletons cut into solid rock in nearby quarry. At this quarry, in 1805, a human skeleton, partly shrouded in a winding sheet of gold plate was found. Exact location not known.
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