Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Coosheen, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coosheen
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Childrens Burial Gd (Disused) (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.52171, -9.51933
- SMR number
- CO149-001----
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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
Marked 'Children's Burial Ground' on OS 6-inch map (1842). On E-facing slope. Wedge-shaped area (35.5m N-S; Wth 38m N end, 19m E end) defined to W by field fence and on other sides by scarp (max. H 1.05m). According to Ryan (1946, 192), also used as 'famine burial ground'. Several gravemarkers noted; one is a portion of the shaft of a cross-slab (CO149-001001-).
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
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.