Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Cashelfean, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashelfean
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Gd (Disused) (1943)
- Coordinates
- 51.57696, -9.60184
- SMR number
- CO139-005----
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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 pasture on N-facing slope. It was described in the OS Name Book (Parish of Skull, no. 2) as 'A fort which was an old burying ground but at present used only for children.' (SMR file). It consists of a raised sub-rectangular area (H 0.9m; 17.2m E-W; 16.3m N-S) with many grave markers. One grave on the N side consists of a rectangular bed of stone slabs (L 2m; Wth 1m) with a headstone at the W end and two footstones marking the E. (Power et al. 1992, no. 2780)
Revised by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload/revision: 18 July 2014
References
Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S. and Sleeman, M. 1992 (Reprint 2003) Archaeological inventory of county Cork, vol. 1: West Cork. Dublin. Stationery Office.
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