Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Caherlehillan, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherlehillan
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.98602, -10.07884
- SMR number
- KE070-043012-
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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
A portion (0.4m x 0.18m; T 0.035m) of a small roughly shaped cross formed one of the covering slabs at the head of an early medieval grave in the graveyard (CO070-043008-). It was recovered during archaeological excavations in the ecclesiastical enclosure (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 excavator concluded that the grave may be that of the site's founder (Sheehan 2009).
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.