Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
An Luachair , County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Luachair
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.18043, -9.97466
- SMR number
- KE045-043----
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
This site is known locally as a children's burial ground and formerly contained numerous little mounds (local information). It straddled the main Anascaul to Tralee road and the S part is now occupied by a tree plantation and the N part has been destroyed by a mechanical excavator. No bones or graves were revealed by the latter. According to Ashe (1954, 27) the site was named Ráth na nÓg.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 905. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 7 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.