Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Mám An óraigh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mám An óraigh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Calluragh Burial Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilcolman Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 52.14372, -10.35851
- SMR number
- KE042-141004-
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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. 10044. Kilcolman/Cill na gColmán: An Early Christian church site KE042-141001- lying on the S slopes of an E-W spur of Lateevemore, overlooking Ventry Harbour.
(3) The visible graves and gravemarkers are confined to the SW quadrant of the enclosure. The most clearly defined grave lies 5m NW of the ogham stone and consists of a low, roughly rectangular mound, 2.25m long NW-SE, its SW side delimited by 3 stones set on edge. The position of other graves are indicated by mounds, low upright stones or prostrate slabs. On the OS maps, graves were also marked in the NE part of the site, and the presence of 2 piles of quartz pebbles here, on the mound of stones already described (1), suggests that this area was reused for calluragh burials.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 868. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 9 August 2013
References
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
Nearby in the register
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.