2021:214 - Killamurren, Cork

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Cork Site name: Killamurren

Sites and Monuments Record No.: CO053-029001 Licence number: 21E0425

Author: Eamonn Cotter

Site type: Ecclesiastical enclosure

Period/Dating:

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.

Ballynanelagh, Rathcormac, Co. Cork