Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ceann Trá, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceann Trá
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- KE052-045----
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The National Monuments Service's description
‘Several small carns' were visible at the E extremity of Ventry strand, near Ventry village, in 1841 (OSL). Human bones were also found at this E end of the strand and these were locally believed to be the bones of those slain in the legendary Battle of Ventry. Westropp (1910, 275) was also informed that 'crowds of small cairns and burial mounds lay at Cantra'. Two 'Heaps of Stone' were marked on the 1st edition of the OS map a little NW of Ventry village but these were apparently not the cairns in question (OSM). Other cairns and mounds have been recorded in Caheratrant, on the W side of Ventry Harbour, but there is now no trace of any of these features.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 232. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 4 August 2013