Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Ballyeagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyeagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.49025, -9.68136
- SMR number
- KE004-062----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In July 1979, a lintel grave containing an inhumation burial was discovered by children in the sand-dunes. The cist was found with the skeleton slightly projecting through a partly eroded sand-dune at a depth of 0.9m below ground level. (Cahill and Sikora 2011, Vol. 2, 41-43)
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.