Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Kilnaruane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilnaruane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.67129, -9.46790
- SMR number
- CO118-031001-
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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
Situated close to the summit of a low hill overlooking Bantry Bay. Included as an early ecclesiastical site by Hurley (1980, 61). Large, roughly circular enclosure visible as shadow site in aerial photograph by Dr. D.D.C. Pochin Mould (1981, 107). Traces of the levelled enclosure are discernible on the ground, mainly to the N of the cross fragment (CO118-031003-). Burial ground (CO118-031002-) and bullaun stone (CO118-031004-) in centre of interior. Four shaped, deeply-grooved stones were noted within the enclosure which Hourihan and Hourihan (1979, 72) suggest may have 'functioned as hinge-stones/corner stones in some form of structure no longer in existence'. Similar stone noted in Caheravart early ecclesiastical enclosure (CO102-024002-).
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.