Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Letter (iveragh By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letter (iveragh By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Calluragh Burial Ground (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 51.92559, -10.22453
- SMR number
- KE079-065001-
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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
Calluragh Burial Ground (KE079-065001-): This site is located in rough pasture on the S facing slope of the spur which runs W from Bentee mountain. It consists of an oval platform, measuring 17.7m N-S x 25m E-W, on which an ogham stone, two possible leachta and a burial area are located. The platform reaches a maximum height of 2.8m at S, where a possible entrance survives as a recessed area flanked on one side by an upright pillar. The original limits of the site may be preserved in a curving field boundary at E.
The burial area occupies the W portion of the platform, which features a large number of uninscribed slabs that stand up to .6m high. The site continued to be used as a ceallúnach until the 1930s (local information).
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 962. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 30 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.