What is recorded here

Grave Yd marks the vanished parish church of Templerobin at the north edge of Ballymore, preserving headstones from 1721 beside a newer graveyard to the east. The old church has no visible remains, but the buried line of the place still separates memory from forgetfulness. People may have stopped building there because life moved east, yet the older graves kept their claim on the land.

At N end of Ballymore village; roughly rectangular graveyard (c. 100m SW-NE; c. 40m NE-SW); in occasional use, partially overgrown. Some 18th and 19th century headstones dating from 1721 (Power 1923, 199-200). No visible surface trace of church (CO088-001002-) marked 'site of' on all eds OS 6-inch map; this was parish church of Templerobin (Power ibid, 198). More recent church and graveyard (CO088-001003-) to E. 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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