Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Killelton (corkaguiny By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killelton (corkaguiny By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.22823, -9.87376
- SMR number
- KE037-025007-
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
National Monument No. 593. Killelton Church and graveyard/Cill Eilthín: Situated on the lower N slopes of Gearhane mountain, overlooking Tralee Bay, this site consists of a rectangular enclosure, within which are the remains of a small oratory and 2 rectangular buildings.
Rectangular foundations: (2) The foundations of a 2nd rectangular structure, 3.4m E-W x 8m N-S internally, lie .8m N of the oratory. The drystone walls are no more than .8m high and there is no clear evidence for an entrance.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 852. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 8 August 2013
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1983).
References
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.