What is recorded here

Indicated is an early ecclesiastical site in County Cork, associated with St. Eloang (Olan), where a large oval enclosure still circles Aghabulloge graveyard. A short stone-faced bank rises beside the road, two ogham stones lie within the graveyard, and St Olan's well waits nearby in the pasture. The place keeps its shape through grass, garden and memory, inviting people to imagine prayers, visits and burial beside water long before written records.

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

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