What is recorded here

Kilbarrahan holds a shallow earthen arc on a gentle south-facing slope, marked locally as a burial ground rather than a grand monument. The circle was levelled and ploughed in the past, reducing the church and grave to a low curve barely half a metre high. What remains is small enough to walk across in moments, yet it preserves the shape of a place where people once set the dead aside and lived around them.

This enclosure was referred to in the 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork - vol. 4 North Cork' (2000, 481) under the entry (no. 14110) for a burial ground (CO032-158002-). The reference to the enclosure reads: 'According to Bowman (1934, 674), 'early church site' (14488) and burial ground 'surrounded by a circular earthen fence which was levelled and the field including the Church site was ploughed'. In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Low earthen mound (min. H 0.38m; max. H 0.8m) curves to form arc SSW-NNW (C 9m E-W); no other trace of burial ground. Known locally as a burial ground.' 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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