Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Kilmalooda, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmalooda
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kill Burial Gd (Disused) (1904)
- Coordinates
- 51.76874, -9.07217
- SMR number
- CO094-080002-
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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
Marked 'Kill Grave Yd.' on OS 6-inch map (1842). In S quadrant of early ecclesiastical enclosure (CO094-080001-). Subcircular area (28m NE-SW; 10m NW-SE) of rough pasture with mound (L 4m; Wth 0.3m; H 0.4m) in SE quadrant. Stones exposed on surface of mound. Stone-lined grave uncovered in 1981 while clearing topsoil at edge of burial ground; grave immediately filled in.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.