Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Coomanaspig, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coomanaspig
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.86210, -10.38294
- SMR number
- KE087-094001-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 2 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On top of a high cliff-edge in an area known locally as the 'Hermit's Garden'. According to local information, a monk is said to have been buried here but there are no visible remains of this burial. It is said locally that a cross-slab marked the grave but that it was moved in the 1900s to Killemlagh graveyard (KE096-009003-), c. 4km to the SE where it marks a family grave. This is probably the cross-inscribed stone (KE096-009002-) described by O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 360) as covering a tomb.
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
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.