What is recorded here

Kiltrislane in County Cork likely marks Ceall Bracain, a subsidiary church belonging to the Tuath Gleannomnach. The name has slipped through several spellings and even two possible parish areas, but the function remained clear: a small sacred attachment beside a larger church. That loss of exact boundary is not emptiness. It is a reminder that enclosure once shaped whole neighbourhoods before human memory narrowed them into a single point.

Power (1932, 30) describes 'Ceall Bracain' as a subsidiary church of the Tuath Gleannomnach. Exact location not known. The Pipe Roll of Cloyne (MacCotter and Nicholls 1996, 27) gives a description for '_Kylbrackan, on the south side of the townland of Brygow[n]e_' from which description Power (1932, 73) identifies 'Ceall Bracain as the present Kiltrislane where, however, no memory of the exact cill site survives'. MacCotter and Nicholls (1996, 185) suggest that '_[Kylbrackan] covered a large area: possibly that covered by the modern parish of Kilphelan_' The possible early ecclesiastical enclosure at Kilphelan (13903) may also be a possible location for 'Ceall Bracain'. 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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