What is recorded here

One-third of the surrounding fence still stands on J. Morrissey's land in Banteer, marking a fifty-by-thirty-five-yard enclosure where grass-covered mounds and two white thorn trees once signaled a church. The rest has surrendered to tillage and memory, leaving only barely perceptible undulations for anyone willing to look twice. What was worshipped or buried there has withdrawn beneath the soil, yet the surviving fence and persistent trees suggest the place still holds its shape against forgetting.

This graveyard was referred to in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 569) under the entry (no. 14464) for a possible church (CO031-049003-). The refererence to the enclosure in the entry reads: 'Bowman (1934, 231) recorded church site and burial ground (CO031-049002-) on J. Morrissey's land; where 'about one-third of the surrounding fence still stands. The site measures 50 yards by 35, and is in the centre of a field. Grass-covered mounds on the north side indicate the site of church. Two white thorn trees grow on the church-site.' No visible surface trace.' Notes in the SMR database for the record for the graveyard (CO031-049002-) are as follows: 'In tillage, on gentle SW-facing slope. Arc (C 35m), formed by hachured bank SSE-NNW depicted on 1938 OS 6-inch map; in N extension to field, formed by curving field boundary W-SE, but not concentric with site. Levelled; barely perceptible undulations visible in field. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 231) as church site and burial ground on J. Morrissey's land; where 'about one-third of the surrounding fence still stands. The site measures 50 yards by 35, and is in the centre of a field. Grass-covered mounds on the north side indicate the site of church. Two white thorn trees grow on the church-site.' 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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