Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Fossa, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fossa
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KE066-088----
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the 1930s Capt. D. B. O'Connell recorded that a 'small built-in grave, presumed to be ancient, existed on the crest of the hill' immediately S of the standing stone (KE066-011----) (SMR file). O'Connell added that this grave had disappeared some years ago following the cultivation of the field (ibid.). Its precise location is not known.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 31 January 2011
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