Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Killahane, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killahane
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.17326, -9.59176
- SMR number
- KE048-114002-
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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
In a levelled rath (KE048-114001-). In the 1840s it was recorded that Killahane fort 'was formerly a burial ground' and that when it was being levelled 'a great deal of human being bones' were found there (OSNB, Molahiffe, no. 1, 37). There are no visible remains of the burial ground.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.