Church

The National Monuments Service's description

Kilfountan Church and Calluragh burial ground/Teampall Fionntain: A roughly D-shaped or sub-oval enclosure within which are the remains of an oratory and rectangular hut, a cross-inscribed ogham stone and a bullaun stone. A quernstone from the site, probably of Disc A type (Caulfield 1969, 64 and 69), is now in the Museum in Cork. Children were still being buried here in the 19th century (OSNB Kildrum, 31). The site is located in the low-lying, level plain that lies N of Dingle Harbour.

Oratory (KE043-144003-): In the SE sector of the enclosure are the remains of a dry stone oratory 3.75m ESE-WNW x 3.15m NNE-SSW internally. The S, E and W walls are only partially preserved, but the corbel-built N wall stands to a height of 1.38m and is 1.8m thick. The doorway in the W wall, .7m wide, now lacks its head; a large flag lying in the interior may originally have been a door lintel.

The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 849. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 8 August 2013