Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ardcrone, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardcrone
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 52.19167, -9.54489
- SMR number
- KE048-007001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The parish church ruins of Currans (KE048-007----) stands in the townland of Ardcrone (An tArd Crón), in the parish of Currans, diocese of Ardfert, barony of Trughanacmy (Triúcha an Aicme). The 18th century church ruins stands in the N quadrant of a roughly square-shaped graveyard (dims. 43m N-Sx 49m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall with entrance at N corner of E wall. In 1986 the Castleisland District Archaeological Survey described the ruins of Currans Church built in 1740 which consisted of a rectangular structure built rubble stone and roughly worked quoins aligned NE-SW standing in NE quadrant of graveyard (KE048-007001-) (SMR File).
See attached plan of church and graveyard taken from Jacobsen 2009
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 25 May 2022
References
Jacobsen, H. 2009 Archaeological Survey, Ardcrone Graveyard, Ardcrone, Co. Kerry. Unpublished report by Headland Archaeology Ltd. for Kerry County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.