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Children's burial ground

Caherlehillan, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Children's burial ground, Caherlehillan, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Caherlehillan
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.98602, -10.07884
SMR number
KE070-043001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In the NE quadrant of an ecclesiastical enclosure (KE070-043----). Portion of the burial ground was excavated during the undergraduate training programme of the Department of Archaeology, UCC, between 1992 and 2004 (see Sheehan 1994, 41-2; 1995, 43-4; 1996, 40-41; 1997, 47; 1998, 82; 2000a, 89; 2000b, 112; 2004, 211-12; 2006, 214). Prior to excavation it comprised an irregular area (c. 14m E-W; c. 11m N-S) occupied by many plain grave-markers. Over one hundred graves were excavated, including both stone-lined and dug examples, many of which contained quartz pebbles. Excavation revealed evidence for a wooden church (KE070-043007-) underlying the burial ground and two cross-slabs (KE070-043006-, KE070-0430011-) were also recovered from it. (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, 263-5, no. 934).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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