What is recorded here

An Faithchin, the Little Green, marked an ancient cemetery beside a Cork road before ploughing erased its bumps. The triangular ground kept its fence line visible long enough for people to recognize death and memory in the soil. Whether it held kings, farmers or forgotten children, the land itself recorded that it was not ordinary when living people still walked past it.

Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as roughly triangular area, defined by broken line cut by roadway on E-W axis. According to Power (1918, 230) 'An Faithchin -"The Little Green"' is an 'untilled space' locally known as 'an ancient cemetery' with line of 'enclosing fence still faintly traceable'. Field on N side of road ploughed in recent years and according to local information,"humps and bumps" flatted out. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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