Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilduff (corkaguiny By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilduff (corkaguiny By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.18390, -9.99712
- SMR number
- KE045-009002-
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
Kilduff graveyard/Cill Dubh: A rectangular enclosure situated on a steep SSW facing slope at the head of the E-W valley that separates Flemingstown mountain from the central mountain range. The enclosure measures 33m E-W x c. 28m N-S internally and is bounded by drystone-built walls which do not differ in construction from adjacent field walls. The interior slopes steeply to SW and the mounds and terraces which give it an uneven surface appear to be natural. Children were still being interred here in the 19th century (OSNB Ballinvoher, book 2, 8).
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 847. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 8 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.