What is recorded here
In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Depicted as large subcircular field on 1842, 1904 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps. Roughly circular area (83m NE-SW) defined by earthen bank (H 2.1m) SW->E; remainder levelled c. 1983; road skirts site NE->E. Bank overgrown with bushes and briars; stone faced internally and externally to N; gap to E; material from levelled section of bank dumped against inner bank face NE->E. Interior grass-covered; slopes down to SW; slight linear scarp (H 0.35m; L 19m), facing NW extends in a SW direction from c. 2m inside NE bank. According to Bowman (1934, 363), 'Church Site and Burial ground, locally called The Killeen...contains nothing to indicate the site of the church'.
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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