Graveyard in Kilmona — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Kilmona held a graveyard and ruined church inside an early ecclesiastical enclosure, yet no burial mark remains visible. The land still carries the local name for a place where the dead were laid, while the bodies and perhaps the church itself disappeared under grass, time or forgetting. What is left is a vacant shape in County Cork, large enough to have held lives and quiet enough to have erased them.

Graveyard and church in ruins (CO051-146003-) shown within early ecclesiastical enclosure (CO051-146001-) on the 1842 OS 6-inch map. No visible trace of burials now survive. Known locally as a burial ground. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.