What is recorded here

Indictated holds three quarters of a large oval church enclosure in level Cork pasture, preserving Cuan's Church and a graveyard beside a holy well. The missing western section suggests pasture, ploughs or forgetting claimed what ceremony once kept whole. A person may have walked that lost curve at dusk, carrying butter, bread or a dead child, believing Cuan still listened beneath the grass.

In level pasture. Three quarters of large oval enclosure (c. 100m SW-NE; c. 80m SE-NW) shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map, missing W section by 1935 OS 6-inch map. Now enclosed NW->NE by earthen bank (H c. 1m); levelled bank visible NE-NW as slight undulation. Graveyard (CO064-02602-) in NE quadrant. According to Power (1923, 178) site of 'Cill Chuain - Cuan's Church'. Holy well (CO064-025---) c. 150m to SSW. 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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