What is recorded here

Killchilling Fort stood within an early ecclesiastical enclosure, marking a buried church and graveyard now hidden beneath pasture. Men dug up human bones there before ploughs erased the visible ground entirely. The dead still occupy that slope, waiting beneath grass and memory for someone to stop walking past them.

In pasture, on SW-facing slope; within ringfort (12716), which in turn is within early ecclesiastical enclosure (13888). Man-made underground passage (13296) 28.5m to NW. No evident surface trace of burials or burial ground. Recorded in OS Field Book of 1839 as 'Killchilling Fort, church of the holly...a small fort, which it is considered was on a burying ground, on account of a good number of human bones having been got in it.' (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 3, 333). Windele recorded 'an old kile, which formed an oblong square, 16 to 20 paces broad, and somewhat longer' (ibid.). He revisited site in 1850 and recorded that burial ground had disappeared and the area was under cultivation (ibid., 333-4). 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

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