Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
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
- 51.50385, -9.45607
- SMR number
- CO149-011005-
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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
Archaeological excavations took place in 1990 at Skeam Church (CO149-011002-) on the island of Skeam West in Roaringwater Bay (Cotter 1991, 19-20). A short section (L 1m) of a V-shaped fosse (Wth 0.5-1.5m; D 0.7m), the profile of which was visible in the cliff face c. 9m to the S of the church, was excavated. It was c. 0.6-0.8m below present ground level and the bulk of its fill consisted of charcoal-flecked stony soil. A thin deposit of charcoal at the bottom contained fragments of burnt and partialy burnt bone. A single burial overlay the fosse. The fosse appears to curve to the NW and, according to the excavator (ibid.) 'may originally have enclosed 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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.