Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Knockaveale, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaveale
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Catholic Church (in Ruins) (1939)
- Coordinates
- 51.71913, -8.78739
- SMR number
- CO110-047002-
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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
Remains of church (int. L 13.15m E-W; Int. Wth 4m N-S; wall thickness 0.65m) on W side Kilhassen Burial Ground (CO110-04701). Indicated on O.S.map (1842) as Chapel (in ruins). W gable church built into W bank burial grounds; stone in gable inscribed 1680. Max. ext. H N and S walls 1.2m; E wall does not survive. Interior level of church c. D 0.4m below external ground level. Stone built altar and seat to w; pair of wall presses in NW corner. (Ó Riordain (1931, 3) refers to ope in N and S wall.
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
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.