What is recorded here

Cill Seanaigh, Semach's Church and graveyard, vanished beneath County Cork soil within decades of its 1842 mapping. Power saw only a small stone pile beside two whitethorn bushes where ancient worship and death once shared one circular place. The graveyard did not resist forgetting; it fed it.

Roughly circular area (diam. c. 35m) dotted on 1842 OS 6-inch map, c. 40m WNW of Kilshannig House (CO044-03301-). Not marked on later editions of OS 6-inch map; no visible surface trace. Power (1923, 190) describes 'a small pile of stones beside a pair of whitethorn bushes' on 'site of ancient church and graveyard'; probably remains of 'Cill Seanaigh - "Semach's Church"'. 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

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