Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Reentrusk, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reentrusk
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.65361, -10.06979
- SMR number
- CO114-021002-
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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
Small rectangular church (8.7m E-W; 4.45m N-S) in SE quadrant of cashel (CO114-021001-); known locally as "Teampull na Dithreabhaigh (church of the hermit)" (O'Donoghue 1986, 318) and marked on 16th century map of Beare (O'Brien 1970, 17). Only lower courses of walls stand; central door in S wall (Wth 1.15m). Interior filled with low, uninscribed gravemarkers and known locally as children's burial ground (CO114-021003-) (O'Shea & Crowley 1972, 43).
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.