Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leper hospital
Ballyoughtera, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyoughtera
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- CO077-084----
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Smith (vol. 1, 1750, 125) Castlemartyr was 'anciently called Lepers-town' after 'a leper house' in adjoining Ballyouteragh. Lee (1966, 17) notes that 'martyr' in Baile na Martra, the Irish for Castlemartyr, means, among other things, a leper. 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