What is recorded here

Kilmore is an ecclesiastical enclosure in County Cork, Ireland. It occupies an oval stretch of pasture below a ridge crest, bounded by substantial earth and stone banks with a shallow external fosse. The interior slopes southward toward a burial ground in the southeast quadrant, while a bullaun stone rests inside the southern bank and a man-made underground passage emerges in the northeast. These features suggest the site served religious, ceremonial and practical purposes within a living landscape rather than existing as a dead monument.

In pasture, below crest of ridge on SSE-facing slope. Oval area (72m E-W; 60m N-S) enclosed by substantial earth and stone bank (int. H 1.7m; ext. H 1.8m to base of fosse) with shallow external fosse (D 0.3m); outer bank (ext. H 0.6m) survives SW->N, where incorporated into field boundary system, and N->NNE. Interior slopes down to S; burial ground (14069) in SE quadrant; bullaun stone (13909) inside S bank; Man-made underground passage (13222) in NE quadrant. Second bullaun stone (13910) c. 480m to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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