Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Coulagh, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coulagh
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.68105, -9.97605
- SMR number
- CO114-003002-
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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
In pasture on N-facing slope overlooking Coulagh Bay. Site of 'M'Kolagh'church, mentioned by Bishop Dive Downes in 1700 (O'Brien 1970, 18), in burial ground (CO114-00301-); O'Shea and Crowley (1972, 50) describe 'what appears to be the foundations of two rectangular buildings at right angles to each other'. No visible surface trace.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.