Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Coolduff, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolduff
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.84124, -8.88147
- SMR number
- CO083-055003-
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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 Kilmurry village, on NE side of crossroads. Subrectangular graveyard (c. 50m N-S; c. 70m E-W) enclosed by stone wall along road to S and SW, by earthen bank to N and E; along W side houses, facing road, back onto graveyard. Near SW corner, ruin of Kilmurry parish church (CO083-055002-). Still inuse; many late 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century headstones; earliest noted dated 1744. Some low uninscribed gravemarkers, also some chest tombs. According to local information, souterrains found across road from graveyard, c. 40m to S (CO083-055004-) and c. 50m to WSW (CO083-055001-) of church ruin.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Burnt spreadunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.