Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
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
- KE070-043007-
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
Excavation of the ecclesiastical enclosure (KE070-043----) revealed evidence for a wooden church (see Sheehan 1994, 41-2; 1995, 43-4; 1996, 40-41; 1997, 47; 1998, 82; 2000a, 89; 2000b, 112; 2004, 211-12; 2006, 214). The small rectangular building (ext. dims. c. 3.8m x 2m) was denoted by corner post-holes and underlay the children's burial ground (KE070-043001-) in the NE quadrant of the enclosure. It featured a post-hole towards its E end and a drain outside it at S, which have been interpreted as an altar-post and a sacrarium, respectively.
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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.