Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
In Ballypheane. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as square area (c. 150sq); now extended to N and W to form irregular area enclosed by stone walls to S and E and concrete walls to N and W. Inside entrance gates, square area (c. 55m sq) defined by stone walls (H c. 2m) which, according to caretaker is earlier section of yard. Earliest gravestone dated 1780. Famine and pauper burial area in SW corner; not marked. Graveyard still in use.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.