Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Caherlehillan, County Kerry, Ireland
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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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 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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.