Killeenemer, Cork

I Location

Site Location
Killeenemer
National Grid Reference
22R 78 07
County
Cork
Type of building/monument
Church (ruin)

II General Description

W wall, re-set voussoirs.

W wall, re-set voussoirs.

View from W.

View from W.

View from W.

View from W.

W wall, re-set voussoirs.

W wall, re-set voussoirs.

Loose sculpture, corbel.

Loose sculpture, corbel.

Loose sculpture, corbel.

Loose sculpture, corbel.

S window, lintel.

S window, lintel.

E window.

E window.

S window.

S window.

A small early church with antae, and a flat-headed W doorway with a narrow, plain architrave. Round-headed windows in S and E walls. The S window has a chamfered exterior and chamfered label. The E window has two exterior orders, one square and one hollow-chamfered, and what could be the remains of a chamfered label. The dimensions of the original building were c.9.00 m x 6.00 m, before it was extended eastwards at a later date (Leask).

VII History

Not known; not recorded by Gwynn and Hadcock.

VIII Comments/Opinions

No sculpture.

IX Bibliography

  • H. G. Leask, Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings, 1960, I, 75.
  • M. Killanin and M. Duignan, The Shell Guide to Ireland, London, 1962, 3rd ed. 1989, 191.