Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Derreennalomane, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derreennalomane
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeen Burial Gd (Disused) (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.58688, -9.50561
- SMR number
- CO131-026----
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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 grazing on E-facing slope. Marked 'Killeen Burial Ground' on OS 6-inch map (1842). Rectangular area (18m N-S; 16.7m E-W) partially enclosed by field fence to S and E and by stone bank to W (H 0.25m). Grave markers and two low mounds (SE quadrant) noted in interior. O'Donoghue (1986, 13) mentions a 'church or Mass-house' in this burial ground; 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.