Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Treanoughtragh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Treanoughtragh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeen Burial Grd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 52.07638, -9.92838
- SMR number
- KE063-003----
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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
Killeen Burial Ground: This site is located in poor pasture on a low spit which projects S into Caragh Creek. No longer in use as a burial ground by the late nineteenth century, it consists of a wedge-shaped area, 12m N-S x 23m E-W, which is raised on average .5m above surrounding ground level. At least fifty small uninscribed grave-markers are arranged in N-S rows throughout the site, many of them obscured by overgrowth. Numerous boulders also occur, and a single blackthorn bush is centrally located in the site's interior.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1042. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 July 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.