What is recorded here

An Teampall, a vanished church on a south-facing Cork slope, resisted mapping until 1936. It may have been a small stone-and-earth enclosure, no larger than a bedroom, where neighbours gathered before grazing cattle claimed the marker. A hospital stood nearby and burials waited in the eastern field, suggesting the site served life and death alike. The church disappeared not through destruction but through ordinary use, erased by grass and forgetting.

Not shown on 1842 and 1904 OS 6-inch maps. Marked on 1936 OS 6-inch map as 'church (site of)'; recorded by OS Field Memoranda (1933), as 'a small enclosure...28ft long, 13ft wide, 1foot high and 2ft wide...composed of stones and earth'. In rough grazing on S-facing slope. According to local information, tradition of church here. Bowman (1934, 437) named it 'An Teampall...site of a church'. No visible surface trace remains. Hospital (14784) in same field a short distance to W; possible burial (11993) and stone row (9839) in adjoining field to E; burial ground (14138) c. 110m to E. 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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