Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Cullen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cullen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (1934)
- Coordinates
- 51.76915, -8.47906
- SMR number
- CO098-037002-
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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
Trapezoidal overgrown graveyard (c. 50m E-W; c. 60m N-S), still in occasional use; Henchion (1989) records 31 inscribed headstones dating from 1766. Rectangular structure (6m x 2m) to S may be remains of watch house, marked on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Contained parish church (CO098-037004-) of Cullen which was in repair 1615 & 1639 (Brady 1863, vol. 1, 327-8); Lewis (1837, vol. 1, 442) records 'some ruins of the old church'. By 1842 OS 6-inch map shows newly erected C of I church (CO098-037003-) immediately NE of old church, this was concecrated 'under the name of Christ Church' (Brady ibid., 71) in 1849; now reduced to low mound of rubble; no visible surface trace of earlier church. Surrounding this is extensive early ecclesiastical enclosure (5160) (Hurley 1980, 56).
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.