Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Ballyrisode, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyrisode
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.50285, -9.66608
- SMR number
- CO147-015002-
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 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Overlooking Ballydivlin Bay to W. Subrectangular, slightly raised area (H 0.5m; 22m E-W; 34.5m N-S); depicted as rectangular area on OS 6-inch map (1842), roughly circular area on 1902 map. Numerous grave markers noted. Said locally that famine victims buried here and in two mounds close by to SE. Excavated souterrain (CO147-015001) nearby to W.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Mine - copperunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.