Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Shrine
Caherlehillan, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherlehillan
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.98601, -10.07881
- SMR number
- KE070-043003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the ecclesiastical enclosure (KE070-043----). Excavation of this early medieval corner-post shrine took place during the undergraduate training programme of the Department of Archaeology, UCC (Sheehan 2000a, 89; 2004, 211; 2006, 214). The shrine (1.9m x 1.9m; H c. 0.8m), whose sides are formed of large, thin sandstone slabs, has a taller upright pillar at each corner. Three of the original corner-posts survive, one of which features a linear cross with a bifid terminal at the top of the shaft. The shrine appears to have been deliberately positioned over a primary grave, of 'lintel-grave' type, within which lay a small stone cross. Two cross-slabs (KE070-043002-, KE070-043004-) stand on the W side of the shrine. (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, 263-5, no. 934)
See attached photographs courtesy of Amanda Clarke
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.