Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Myross, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Myross
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.52412, -9.14451
- SMR number
- CO151-024001-
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
On top of a ridge overlooking coastline to E, roughly rectangular graveyard enclosed by stone-faced earthen bank. Many rows of low, uninscribed headstones; two chest tombs to E of church (CO151-024002-); earliest inscriptions date to 1760s. Pyramidal grave marker in SW quadrant; six gabled tombs to W of church. Still in occasional use.
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
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.