Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Derrycreeveen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrycreeveen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.63681, -9.89965
- SMR number
- CO115-129----
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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 rough rush and gorse-covered grazing on a N-facing slope c. 200m from the S shore of Bearhaven Harbour. According to local tradition, a series of stones and small boulders (max. H 0.5m) mark the burial place of George Carew's soldiers, who died during the Siege of Dunboy in 1602. The stones are largely obscured by gorse.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009).
Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.