Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Churchtown (imokilly By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchtown (imokilly By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd (1934)
- Coordinates
- 51.82272, -8.07961
- SMR number
- CO089-045001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On S side of road, 300m S of Churchtown village; small rectangular graveyard (c. 40m E-W; c. 30m N-S) at cross-roads. Ruins of parish church of Ballintemple at centre (CO089-04502-). Still in use; earliest headstones date from 1770s; headstone dated 1779 decorated with 'Hatchet, intersecting with a Saw (a woodcutter?)' (O'Shea 1988, 95).
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.