Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Skeam West, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skeam West
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.50407, -9.45608
- SMR number
- CO149-011001-
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
Though not defined by enclosure or gravemarkers, an area of burials is visible on the eroded cliff under and on either side (for c. 10m to N and S) of Skeam Church (CO149-011002-). The burials are inhumations, on the same axis as the church; Fahy (1962, 138) notes one as being slab-lined. One skeleton lies directly under the N wall of the church. Donovan (1979, 116) says that "numerous interments used to be made...in the sacred precincts of the old chapel...of St. Keam".
See Excavations 1990, 19-20
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
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.