What is recorded here

Cillín is a vanished burial ground in County Cork where two upright stones once flanked a cross socket before men levelled the platform around 1990. Power saw a small cross-head, axe-mould and outer rampart enclosing two or three acres, yet no burial marks remained visible. The stones may have marked children, neighbours or forgotten Christians laid beneath a slope now lost to tillage. What is left is the shape of the gap: a rectangle of earth where witness was removed.

In tillage, on S-facing slope. Sub-rectangular platform defined by low scarp. At W side two upright stones (H 1.45m; 0.95m x 0.26m: H 1.1m; 1.06mx 0.23m) flank low rectangular stone with subrectangular socket (D 0.03m;0.16m x 0.12m) on top surface. 'Small cross-head (H 10 ins) with plinth', axe-mould and arc of 'outer rampart enclosing two-three acres' noted by Power (1951, 59). No surface evidence for burials or outer enclosure. Stones removed and cillín levelled c. 1990. 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

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.