Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Abbeystrowry, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeystrowry
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd (1944)
- Coordinates
- 51.55167, -9.28874
- SMR number
- CO141-084001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On N shore of Ilen river estuary. Oblong area (extended to E in 19th century) with a large number of 19th and 20th century headstones; also some chest tombs. Famine plot in SW quadrant adjacent to modern keepers house now abandoned. Ruins of Abbeystrowry church (CO141-084002-) near W 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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.