Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Kilgobnet, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgobnet
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeen Burial Ground
- Coordinates
- 52.06351, -9.71964
- SMR number
- KE065-043----
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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
Killeen Burial Ground: No visible trace survives of this site, which was located a short distance ENE of Kilgobnet Church (KE065-042001-). It was depicted on the second edition of the OS map as an irregularly shaped area, located at the S side of a pond and delimited at W by a field boundary. The site was levelled in recent years during land reclamation operations. It was situated adjacent to a holy well (KE065-042002-) and is described in the IFC Schools' Collection as a burial ground for unbaptised children.
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. 1048. 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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.