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Burial ground

Derrynakilla, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Derrynakilla, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Derrynakilla
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
51.75836, -9.45581
SMR number
CO091-073----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Known locally as a 'ceallunach'. The site is to the west of the Priests Leap road and is in an area of improved grazing. The oval shaped area, marked off by the stone wall, measures c 20m N-S and c 13m E-W and is at the edge of a small scarp just over a meter in height. The interior is overgrown with bracken and is full of stones, many of which look like burial markers. However, there are also some arrangements of larger slabs of stone set contiguously, horizontally on their edges, two lines parallel to each other, at least four on the west and two on the east side, and about 3m apart. These stones possibly are the remains of a kerb built around an earlier monument. The local residents have recently protected it by building a stone wall around its perimeter.

Compiled by: Tony Miller

Date of upload: 25 February 2015

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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