Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Castlequarter, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlequarter
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.57350, -9.59711
- SMR number
- KE002-002----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This site is marked on the 1841-42 OS map as 'Kyle burial ground' but does not appear on the later 1914 OS map. Today, this burial ground has been completely levelled and no surface trace remains. Two fields N of this site lies the coastline and the River Shannon.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 842. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 3 August 2013
References
Toal, C. 1995 North Kerry Archaeological Survey. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.