Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Killeenagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeenagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.15289, -9.91099
- SMR number
- KE045-100001-
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
Páirc na Leacht' is named from 2 cairns which reputedly covered the graves of 2 English soldiers (An Seabhac 1939, 204). These are not now visible but, near the E end of the N field boundary, the landowner recently uncovered 3 or 4 upright stones standing .5 to .6m high and 1 to 2m apart. These he suggested resembled grave-markers; they have been covered over and neither their archaeological significance nor their relationship to the cairns is clear.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 206. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 4 August 2013
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.