What is recorded here

Graveyard and church at Castlemartyr, County Cork. Cahiralton parish church stood there in 1615, still repairing its walls while people lived and died around it. The building is gone now, leaving a slightly raised oval of pasture and scattered cut stone. What remains is not emptiness but shape: a long SW-NE line, a shallow basin of memory, and the kind of quiet that comes after prayer stops echoing but does not forget.

In level pasture, on grounds of Castlemartyr demesne. Slightly raised, oval-shaped area (65m SW-NE; 30m SE-NW) only trace of graveyard. Some pieces of cut stone lying about may be from church (CO077-004002-). Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as rectangular structure, on SW-NE axis; this was Cahiralton parish church which was in repair in 1615 (Brady 1863, vol. 2, 77). 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

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