What is recorded here

Burial ground in Castlelohort Demesne is a circular ancient ground about fifty-five yards across, recorded in County Cork before its church vanished entirely. It may have stood as a quiet neighbourhood centre where people gathered, prayed and laid their dead beside one another for generations. The church is gone, but the round shape remains in memory and land, marking a place where human life still turns beneath ordinary soil.

Bowman (1934, 61) recorded church and burial ground in J. McCabe's land; he described it as 'circular and consequently very ancient. The diameter is c. 55 yards. No sign of the church now remains'. Exact location not known. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

A circular burial ground, likely medieval in date, indicating the presence of an early religious site; its exact type and wider significance remain unclear due to lack of surviving structures or detailed records.

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