Children's burial ground

The National Monuments Service's description

Templemanaghan/Teampall Mhanacháin or Teampall Geal (KE043-140001-) and its associated burial ground lie on the lower E slopes of Lateevemore and command a magnificent view over Dingle Harbour and the Milltown valley. The outline of the original enclosure is suggested by the sub-semicircular field wall that bounds the W side of the site and a 2m long section of stone facing, only 1 course high, directly inside the wall at N, may have been part of the original wall or bank. Though the S and E sides of the site are now unenclosed, the interior is relatively level in comparison with the steep natural hillslope below (broken hachures on accompanying plan) and the main W part of the site is separated from a lower terrace to E by an ill-defined scarp. Windele (1848, 404-5) mentioned that portion of a great oval embankment or earthen rampart existed to E of the oratory and mention of an old circular embankment is also made in the OSNB (Dingle, book 2, 13). This had been removed by 1875 (Dunraven, 58). Dunraven was informed locally that a number of small buildings had also been removed from the site in recent times. These latter may have been hut sites and the low grass-grown foundations to NE of the oratory and to W of the ogham stone may be the remains of 2 of these. However, too little survives for definite interpretation.

The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 824. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 8 August 2013

References

OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.

Windele, J. 1848 Excursions in Kerry. Royal Irish Academy MS 12 C 11.

Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.

Dunraven, E. the Earl of 1875 Notes on Irish Architecture, 2 vols. London. George Bell and Sons.