Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Ballybunnion, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybunnion
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.50311, -9.67179
- SMR number
- KE004-061----
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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
In April 1987, a long cist containing an inhumation burial was discovered during drainage works for new County Council houses. At least one complete skeleton was found lying approximately south-west/north-east, with the head to the south-west. It appeared to have been fully extended. Excavation revealed two further successive inhumation burials comprising of a lintel grave overlying an unprotected inhumation. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol 2, 36-41)
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 28 January 2013
References
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.