
What is recorded here
In undulating pasture, bisected by roadway running WNW-ESE. Traces of large oval enclosure (c. 160m ESE-WNW; c. 130m SSW-NNE) surround Aghabulloge graveyard (CO061-080002-). Best preserved section of enclosure boundary is short length of stone-faced earthen bank (H 1.7m) WNW->NW, just N of road; NW->E no surface trace of enclosure; E->SE (just E of graveyard wall) slight curving rise possibly marks line of enclosure. S of road, SE->S, gardens on line of enclosure. Slight scarp S->WSW, just inside curving line of field fence. Saint's stone (9247), originally in field to N of graveyard, recently moved to inside graveyard. Two ogham stones (7959, 7960) found within graveyard. St Olan's well (9271) c. 450m to NE. Identified by Hurley (1980, 54-5) as 'an important early ecclesiastical site....associated with St. Eloang (Olan)'.
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
A local church or high cross; wider significance not recorded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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