What is recorded here

Indicated is St. Gobnait's church, a sixty-metre enclosure where a burial ground and two hollow stones still mark the edge of human memory. The wall survives only along one diagonal, as if the rest dissolved back into the Cork landscape. People may have prayed there, buried their dead and walked past the hollow stones for generations before the boundary faded.

Shown on 1842, 1903 and 1940 OS 6-inch maps as subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) immediately S of roadway. Burial ground (9343) and bullan stone (9226) in NE quadrant; second bullaun stone (9227) c. 12m to S of enclosure. Enclosing boundary survives NNW->SE as wall of burial ground; levelled elsewhere. Townland name translates 'Cill Ghobnatan - St. Gobnait's church' (O'Donoghue 1986, 224). 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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