Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Belrose, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Belrose
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.82127, -8.66993
- SMR number
- CO085-056----
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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
Found during erection of ESB poles. 'Inhumed extended skeleton in cist. Found several years ago [pre 1958] and reburied in Inishannon graveyard' (UCC). No visible surface trace.
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
An account of this monument has been published in: Cahill, M. & Sikora, M. (2011) Breaking ground, finding graves- reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. vol. 2, 465.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 17 August 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.