Church, Ballyheen Middle, Co. Cork
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In the townland of Ballyheen Middle in north Cork, a burial ground holds something that can no longer be seen.
On its northern side, where an early church once stood, there is now nothing at all to show for it, no stonework, no foundation outline, no visible trace of any kind above ground.
What is known comes from a single observation made by Bowman in 1934, who noted the presence of an early church site on the northern edge of the burial ground and described an irregular mound as the indicator of where the church had been. That mound, slight and uneven as it apparently was, seems to have been the last legible sign. Subsequent records confirm that no surface trace remains. The burial ground itself survives, but the church that likely gave it its original purpose has dissolved entirely back into the earth, leaving only the note that it was once there.