Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Desert (carbery East (e.d.) By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Desert (carbery East (e.d.) By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Desert Church (in Ruins) (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.61300, -8.86566
- SMR number
- CO135-053002-
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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 graveyard (CO135-053001-), the church has been completely removed by Cork County Council during road widening. Photographs taken 1981 show N and W walls standing c. 1m high (pers. comm. John Davies). Webster (1932, 273-4) illustrates unusual recess in W gable, which he interpreted as "unusual arrangement... for ringing the sacred bell"; he gives dimensions of building as '23ft 4in x 15ft 4in'.
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Corn storeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.