2021:214 - KILLAMURREN, Cork
County: Cork
Site name: KILLAMURREN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO053-029001
Licence number: 21E0425
Author: Eamonn Cotter
Author/Organisation Address: Ballynanelagh, Rathcormac, Co. Cork
Site type: Ecclesiastical enclosure
Period/Dating: Early Medieval (AD 400-AD 1099)
ITM: E 581822m, N 585556m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.021710, -8.264860
An expanding farmyard has been encroaching on the ecclesiastical enclosure at Killamurren since before 1841 so that over 90% of the original enclosure is now occupied by farm buildings, leaving only a 30m long arc of the original enclosing bank surviving. A further planned farmyard expansion to the east of the enclosure necessitated archaeological monitoring of ground works. Topsoil was removed over an area 45m x 20m and foundations for a proposed new building were dug. No archaeology was found.