Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical site
Town Lands, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Town Lands
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.57690, -9.03100
- SMR number
- CO143-023001-
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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
Overlooking Rosscarbery estuary to S and E. The site of a monastery which was founded by St Fachtna, who died c. 600 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 96). A 19th-century C of I cathedral, incorporating some remains of a 17th-century cathedral (CO143-023008-), and a graveyard (CO143-023002-) now occupy the site.
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
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Benedictine monksunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.