Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Ballyhar, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhar
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.11835, -9.57207
- SMR number
- KE058-104----
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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 rath (KE058-104001-). In the 1840s a children's burial ground was recorded in the W end of Ballyhar townland, close to two raths (OSNB, Kilcredane, 12). It is likely that the rath (KE058-104001-) which is c. 200m E of a rath (KE058-028----) and c. 170m SE of another rath (KE058-029----) was the children' burial ground referred to in the 1840s, though there are no visible remains of any graves or grave-markers in its interior.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.