Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Gurteenroe (carbery West (w.d) By., Skull Par.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gurteenroe (carbery West (w.d) By., Skull Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- RC Chapel (in Ruins) (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.56268, -9.49444
- SMR number
- CO140-010----
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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
Remains of church in narrow isolated valley; built along townland boundary. Indicated as "in ruins" on OS 6-inch map (1842). Rectangular in plan (int. 18m NE-SW; 5m NW-SE; wall H 1.6m; wall thicknesss 0.6m); central door in SE wall with lintelled windows on either side. Internal ledge (Wth 0.5m; H 0.4m) occurs along NW and SE walls. Stone built altar at NE end; later internal divisions at SW end.
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 stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Bullaun stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.